Coreutils POSIX changes not documented in release notes

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:25:25PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >Just discovered this.
> >
> >IMHO, this massive breakage needs to be documented (in allcaps) in the
> >FC5 Release notes:
> > 
> >
> Completely disagree. This is a long standing change and not specific to 
> Fedora Core 5 at all. Release notes is about major differences between 
> releases and shouldnt be extended to provide all kinds of general 
> information.

You can disagree all you want, but this is a change from FC4 to FC5:

fc4% sort +2 < /var/log/messages | head -1
Mar  7 00:27:35 ti63 smartd[2187]: Device: /dev/sda, Temperature changed -2 Celsius to 35 Celsius since last report

rawhide% sort +2 < /var/log/messages | head -1
sort: open failed: +2: No such file or directory


	Bill Rugolsky