On Wed, 2023-08-30 at 12:11 -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > On 8/29/23 23:13, Ian Laurie wrote: > > coreutils-9.3 brought changes to the behavior of the -v option which > > broke some of my automation scripts. > > > > Because of this I have been blocking updates to coreutils in Rawhide and > > Fedora 39. and I'm running coreutils-9.2-4.fc39.x86_64. > > > > This change in the -v option has been reverted in 9.4 (released > > 2023-08-29). From [1]: > > > > ** Changes in behavior > > > > 'cp -v' and 'mv -v' will no longer output a message for each file > > skipped > > due to -i, or -u. Instead they only output this information with > > --debug. > > I.e., 'cp -u -v' etc. will have the same verbosity as before > > coreutils-9.3. > > > > If it's too late to get 9.4 into 39, is it possible to locally include > > this specific reverting patch? > > > > [1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/NEWS > > I personally agree that this is enough of a change to warrant > consideration for Fedora 39, but I want Fedora QA to weigh in. At this > point we have beta and final blockers and you can use this form to > propose one: > > https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/propose_bug > > If you want some help filing this proposal or the process, I am happy to > answer questions here or in chat. I am dcantrell on IRC and in Matrix chat. well, the question is not so much how useful is *this* change, but what *other* changes does coreutils 9.4 introduce. During Beta freeze, it would be much safer to just backport this specific change. This is clearly not a Beta blocker, but you can propose it as a Beta FE... -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @adamw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
