[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RELEASE] Pre4: 24th/25th April

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:59:28PM +0200, Anders Rune Jensen wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 11:45 +0200, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > pre4 release is scheduled on the 24 or 25th of April.
> > 
> > Any still not yet commented/applied/whatever patches or known major bugs
> > remaining?
> 
> I'm not sure if this has been submitted before, but the syntax for
> specifying the amount of lines to list in head and tail has been changed
> in the latest version of coreutils. Gentoo uses the attached patch for
> their ebuild, it should be backwards compatible with older versions of
> coreutils also.

This has been sent before (actually committed once) and REJECTED! The
person who did it got a lot of cola too. FSF does not have the
authority to redefine unix. Many old unices do not support -n, and
both forms (-n 1 and -1) are supported in posix.

Rich