[OE-core] [PATCH] coreutils: revert upstream commit causing havoc with ls output

Paul Gortmaker paul.gortmaker at windriver.com
Mon May 23 18:09:09 UTC 2016


[Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] coreutils: revert upstream commit causing havoc with ls output] On 21/05/2016 (Sat 12:18) Olof Johansson wrote:

> On 16-05-20 20:02 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> > Several large distros are voting with their feet and actively
> > reverting the change, as per what can be seen above for Debian.
> 
> To me, it sounds like you're saying that the Debian maintainer is
> actively taking a stand against upstream, but the changelog makes
> it sound more like a temporary thing.

I did write "... it doesn't appear that the coreutils folks are going
to change the default back to the old way..."

> 
> From the changelog entry:
> > * Disable default ls quoting for now to get the rest of 8.25
> >   into testing. (Closes: #813164)
> 
> Could you add something in the commit message to make this
> clearer?

I suppose I can resend with "..coreutils folks are _ever_ going to..."
if you think that extra word clarifies things in the OE log I wrote.

The log of the actual patch is as-is from Debian, aside from me adding
the Upstream-Status, the http source and my SOB line.  Is that the log
you were hoping to have added to/clarified?

Paul.
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> olofjn



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