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Normal bugs - outstanding:

• #16467: Diffutils 3.3 v. VMS (et al.)
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "Steven M. Schweda" <sms@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 4317 days old.
• #18641: [PATCH] diff: Add --only=REGEX option to parse only files that match REGEX
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Daniel Hilst Selli <danielhilst@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 4055 days old.
• #18973: diffutils-3.3 test-mbrtowc3.sh fails on Solaris without European localization
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kiyoshi KANAZAWA <yoi_no_myoujou@HIDDEN>; 4023 days old.
• #19508: [PATCH] diff: compare major, minor numbers of block/character special files
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Ondřej Svoboda <ondrej@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 3964 days old.
• #19835: RFC: diff: skip initial columns before comparing
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@HIDDEN>; 3926 days old.
• #20279: With -r, option to avoid duplicate differences due to relative symbolic links
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 3870 days old.
• #20794: ignore subdirectory with diff
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "杨秉武" <detailyang@HIDDEN>; 3805 days old.
• #21034: [bug-diffutils] bug#21023: bug#21023: REQUEST: --no-dereference missing from manpage + please make a short option for it
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Denis Excoffier <bug-tar@HIDDEN>; 3777 days old.
• #21665: Use of mmap for large files
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@HIDDEN>; 3684 days old.
• #21674: Fix for context-header
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gvanem@HIDDEN>; 3683 days old.
• #22108: diff wrapper script for very large files, low memory
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Taco van Dijk <taco@HIDDEN>; 3627 days old.
• #22535: REQ: regex dialect switching (for -F and -I)
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Aaron Davies <adavies42@HIDDEN>; 3570 days old.
• #23226: diffutils does not compile with C89 compiler
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Brian Nixon <nixonb@HIDDEN>; 3507 days old.
• #23596: Add exclude directories feature
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: <daveparrish@HIDDEN>; 3461 days old.
• #24234: Recursive diff noise for broken symlinks, fifos and sockets
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap@HIDDEN>; 3375 days old.
• #24330: mingw64: diff complains about the argument '-' (stdin), not able to run testsuites generated by automake [side issue: not able to compile diffutils-3.5]
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Simon Sobisch <simonsobisch@HIDDEN>; 3361 days old.
• #24397: Binary files and --label option
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@HIDDEN>; 3350 days old.
• #25121: Bug with diff -y argument
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Oliver Dixon <oliver.w.dixon@HIDDEN>; 3263 days old.
• #25343: diffutils run with option -B do not ignore blank lines with Windows line ending
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Jeff THUONG <jfthuong@HIDDEN>; 3234 days old.
• #25402: Race condition in "colors" test
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>; merged with #34519, #36488; 3229 days old.
• #25427: strip-trailing-cr makes -q not be quick
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Tom Vajzovic <t.gnutools@HIDDEN>; 3225 days old.
• #25663: verify macro in system.h incorrectly expects 8 byte long for 64-bit builds on Windows/Visual Studio
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 3197 days old.
• #25664: util.c of diffutils 3.5 fails to build on Windows
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 3197 days old.
• #25814: Windows same_file macro is not reliable
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 3186 days old.
• #26052: Feature suggestion: Identifying identical files
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Victor Porton <porton@HIDDEN>; 3168 days old.
• #26572: problem with "diff --color": escape sequences shouldn't span multiple lines
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: <ian_bruce@HIDDEN>; 3127 days old.
• #27063: make check FAIL for diffutils-3.6
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Michael Felt <michael@HIDDEN>; 3092 days old.
• #27241: diff command modified my file
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Hong Jehn <hongjehn@HIDDEN>; 3082 days old.
• #28022: GNU diff, autowrap for long lines
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Wei-Shun Lo <raliclo@HIDDEN>; 3016 days old.
• #28796: diff 3.6 still reports a diff on identical lines
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 2952 days old.
• #28851: [bug-diffutils] - Directories compare doesn't show all differences
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 2949 days old.
• #29139: add --include for recursive searches
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kevin Hunter Kesling <hunteke@HIDDEN>; 2930 days old.
• #29311: Byte comparison from cmp diffutils
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "s3gmentationfault@HIDDEN" <s3gmentationfault@HIDDEN>; 2918 days old.
• #29510: 3-way merge, diff3 lacking features
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric@HIDDEN>; 2903 days old.
• #30574: Support different charsets
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Victor Porton <porton@HIDDEN>; 2819 days old.
• #30913: Releasing a build compatible with glibc-2.26+
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: The Fireplace <the.f1repl4ce@HIDDEN>; 2790 days old.
• #31185: Why is there no full support for Unicode?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Keepun <keepun@HIDDEN>; 2766 days old.
• #31199: Diff sym link bug
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Alessandro <mirio@HIDDEN>; 2765 days old.
• #31577: Using -S / --starting-file causes diff to miss some files
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Maxim Baz <lists.gnu@HIDDEN>; 2728 days old.
• #31583: short option for --no-dereference (again)
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Denis Excoffier <bug-tar@HIDDEN>; 2728 days old.
• #31830: diffutil bug report
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: ZI WANG <zw@HIDDEN>; 2707 days old.
• #32353: Failing test with diffutils 3.6 on SLES12 with gcc7 compiler
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 2657 days old.
• #32400: Context and unified hunk formats not fully documented - no mention of --show-c-function / --show-function-line effect on headers
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Philippe Cloutier <chealer@HIDDEN>; 2652 days old.
• #32505: colorize the changed text a different color?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@HIDDEN>; 2638 days old.
• #32993: Pathologically slow operation
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@HIDDEN>; 2591 days old.
• #33144: Replace some loops with str functions
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "Kapus, Timotej" <timotej.kapus13@HIDDEN>; 2574 days old.
• #33427: question or RFE on diff -r handling non-same files: show new/older when they "differ"
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: L A Walsh <gnu@HIDDEN>; 2549 days old.
• #33467: "diff" can not scan directories with same dev/inode
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Delian Krustev <krustev-diffutils@HIDDEN>; 2546 days old.
• #33813: GNU diffutils 3.6 – 'diff -y' – Several mark types used as separators instead of one – Inappropriate options combinations
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg@HIDDEN>; 2518 days old.
• #33947: Failure building diffutils-3.7 (openSUSE:Factory)
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Sean Lewis <sean@HIDDEN>; 2506 days old.
• #33965: handling of closed file descriptors
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 2504 days old.
• #34259: --*-line-format results are different from the default.
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 2477 days old.
• #34376: How to submit a bug fix?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Richard Gering <Richard.Gering@HIDDEN>; 2468 days old.
• #34519: Test "colors" fails on Debian/ppc64el
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>; merged with #25402, #36488; 2458 days old.
• #34578: Support for different coloration of --- and +++ headers?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh@HIDDEN>; 2457 days old.
• #34705: Cannot get white space to be ignored
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Mallika Bachan <mallika.bachan@HIDDEN>; 2446 days old.
• #35214: [Bug][diff][3.3] diff showing difference when there is none
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: 方然 <ufo2243@HIDDEN>; 2407 days old.
• #35451: Typo in the manual
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@HIDDEN>; 2390 days old.
• #35730: Diffutils manual refers to wrong node of Emacs manual
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: jorge+list@HIDDEN (Jorge P. de Morais Neto); 2373 days old.
• #36488: diffutils 3.7 make check failure ppc64le opensuse on colors test
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Normand <normand@HIDDEN>; merged with #25402, #34519; 2323 days old.
• #37381: [diff] recursive matching: compare symlink targets by default
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap@HIDDEN>; 2253 days old.
• #37844: [PATCH] cmp -x/--verbose-hex
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "dmo2118@HIDDEN" <dmo2118@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 2213 days old.
• #38779: Document conflicting options better
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 2145 days old.
• #39688: is a socket
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Norbert de Jonge <mail@HIDDEN>; 2091 days old.
• #39868: Fix for diff -ZE behaviour
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: felix <felix.von.s@HIDDEN>; 2080 days old.
• #39910: Add color to "No newline at end of file"
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Cameron Steffen <cam.steffen94@HIDDEN>; 2078 days old.
• #40018: How to diff PDF files?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 2072 days old.
• #40020: package:diffutils; package-version:1:3.7-3; BUG on options: --exclude and --new-file used together
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "camel bright" <solar020@HIDDEN>; 2072 days old.
• #41777: Feature: colorize diff -q
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Ed Avis <ed.avis@HIDDEN>; 1981 days old.
• #43923: "only in" message in recursive diff is ambiguous and hence useless if the directories have the same name
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: php fan <php4fan@HIDDEN>; 1857 days old.
• #44378: diff Manual
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Michael Partridge <mcp292@HIDDEN>; 1836 days old.
• #44379: File name affects patch patched file regardless of diff
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Michael Partridge <mcp292@HIDDEN>; 1836 days old.
• #44838: diff 3.7 incorrectly reports added lines and can generate huge diffs
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 1813 days old.
• #45350: Errors in man pages
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Helge Kreutzmann <debian@HIDDEN>; 1786 days old.
• #45439: Mistake in string
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Daniel Tisi <daniel.tisi@HIDDEN>; 1782 days old.
• #46134: Improvement of diff
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Joaquim Luque <joaquiml@HIDDEN>; 1749 days old.
• #46550: bug in diff -r?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Stan Schymanski <schymans@HIDDEN>; 1729 days old.
• #48047: provide --dereference
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@HIDDEN>; 1660 days old.
• #48081: diff on windows doest work with same path but different drives
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: dreverser@HIDDEN; 1658 days old.
• #48168: diff: mention if any GNU extensions
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 1654 days old.
• #48516: diff.c:764: possible wrong operator ?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: David Binderman <dcb314@HIDDEN>; 1637 days old.
• #48791: diff ( -q option )
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: saransh bhatnagar <saransh87@HIDDEN>; 1623 days old.
• #49038: Speeding up diff on Windows
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gisle.vanem@HIDDEN>; 1610 days old.
• #50165: GNU diff '--recursive' should continue on "input/output error". GNU cmp should have missing '--recursive' option.
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: YruNlsr6371bDg <fhdpo2zdkgrgktctxxumrxd2ayhtdf@HIDDEN>; 1542 days old.
• #51958: Difference between "diff" and "diff3"
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: <marc@HIDDEN>; 1454 days old.
• #52111: coloring bug in diff -y ?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: linuxprocess@HIDDEN; 1447 days old.
• #53449: diffutils-3.8 configure script depends on cmp
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Ilari Jääskeläinen <ijaaskelainen@HIDDEN>; 1389 days old.
• #54365: the .gitignore file is modified
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 1339 days old.
• #54366: option -L is not documented in the "diff --help" output
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 1339 days old.
• #59387: Request to release new m4/diffutils with updated gnulib
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Zhang Ning <zhangn1985@HIDDEN>; 1088 days old.
• #61377: Too many [-Wsign-compare] warnings
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@HIDDEN>; 1006 days old.
• #61966: diff -r reports identical devices nodes (maj/min) as different
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@HIDDEN>; 983 days old.
• #62727: diff dirs without file content
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: dinar qurbanov <qdinar@HIDDEN>; 948 days old.
• #63632: diffutils 3.10: test suite is failing in test-strtoll unit
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz@HIDDEN>; 905 days old.
• #64811: Win-version now broken
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gvanem@HIDDEN>; 842 days old.
• #64860: Win-version now broken
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 840 days old.
• #66095: diff quoting for names with spaces changed after v3.10-171-g69ae797392
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@HIDDEN>; 785 days old.
• #67541: diff -r reporting two fifos as somehow different
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: kevin dankwardt <kevin.dankwardt@HIDDEN>; 712 days old.
• #71269: [PATCH 1/2] sdiff: Match execvp argument types
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 530 days old.
• #71529: Crash for large directory due to memory outage
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Evan Greenup <evan_greenup@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 516 days old.
• #72723: diff -d can be very slow
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 448 days old.
• #77507: 12 failures from "make check"
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Derek Clegg <derek@HIDDEN>; 222 days old.
• #77615: difference in diff -wB with and without -u
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Aaron Davies <aaron.davies@HIDDEN>; 218 days old.
• #77840: Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@HIDDEN>; 209 days old.
• #78019: LTO build fails with diffutils 3.12
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Christian Hesse <list@HIDDEN>; 202 days old.
• #78111: new test failure: test-nstrftime-2.sh
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 197 days old.
• #78213: should produce a diff with similar lines grouped together if possible
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 193 days old.
• #79240: Space inside C-strings
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gvanem@HIDDEN>; 88 days old.
• #79372: bug report: cannot `sdiff -o` using temporary streams as input
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Byron Hawkins <byron.c.hawkins@HIDDEN>; 70 days old.
• #79405: build failures on macOS and Cygwin
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 64 days old.
• #79407: to-file option not working any more?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Mandar Mitra <mandar.mitra@HIDDEN>; 64 days old.
• #79676: [trollo@franken-online.de: Bug#1118586: diffutils: diff --to-file=directory no longer works as expected]
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>; 20 days old.

Wishlist items - outstanding:

• #15452: Comparing files whose name _do_ match a certain pattern
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@HIDDEN>; 4431 days old.
• #15685: identical errors
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: gregrwm <backuppc-users@HIDDEN>; 4403 days old.
• #15774: rfc/pre-patch: automatic diff width from the terminal
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 4393 days old.
• #16317: fail fast mechanism for GNU diff
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter722@HIDDEN>; 4332 days old.
• #16408: Bug#734840: diff -R (aka diff --reverse)? (fwd)
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>; 4323 days old.
• #16613: diff -r with .gz files in the directories
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 4301 days old.
• #19794: Feature Request - CMP
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Pádraig Brady <P@HIDDEN>; 3931 days old.
• #21005: diff -r: option to sort the files in timestamp order to generate patches
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 3780 days old.
• #23950: An enhancement request
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Dr. Randall Fisher" <randall.fisher@HIDDEN>; 3410 days old.
• #24304: Latest release 3.5
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Claude <lamy.claude@HIDDEN>; 3366 days old.
• #29855: mention that diff -s shows more than just identical files
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 2877 days old.
• #34930: diff enhancement request
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Michael Aramini <m.aramini@HIDDEN>; 2428 days old.
• #69723: Proposed enhancement
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: John Summerfield <johclisum@HIDDEN>; 610 days old.
• #72274: diff: option to ignore leading white space
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 475 days old.
• #79775: Use a program to define line-wise (not file-wise) comparison
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Carl Ponder <cponder@HIDDEN>.

Normal bugs - resolved:

• #79750: update after gnulib changed
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.