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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; 2200 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; 1938 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>; 1907 days old.
• #19508: [PATCH] diff: compare major, minor numbers of block/character special files
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Ondřej Svoboda <ondrej@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 1847 days old.
• #19835: RFC: diff: skip initial columns before comparing
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@HIDDEN>; 1809 days old.
• #20250: diff by size
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Andreas <wiisses@HIDDEN>; 1758 days old.
• #20279: With -r, option to avoid duplicate differences due to relative symbolic links
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 1754 days old.
• #20794: ignore subdirectory with diff
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "杨秉武" <detailyang@HIDDEN>; 1688 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>; 1660 days old.
• #21665: Use of mmap for large files
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@HIDDEN>; 1567 days old.
• #21674: Fix for context-header
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Gisle Vanem <gvanem@HIDDEN>; 1566 days old.
• #22108: diff wrapper script for very large files, low memory
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Taco van Dijk <taco@HIDDEN>; 1510 days old.
• #22535: REQ: regex dialect switching (for -F and -I)
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Aaron Davies <adavies42@HIDDEN>; 1453 days old.
• #23226: diffutils does not compile with C89 compiler
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Brian Nixon <nixonb@HIDDEN>; 1390 days old.
• #23596: Add exclude directories feature
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: <daveparrish@HIDDEN>; 1344 days old.
• #23644: bug with context greater than 0
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Claude <lamy.claude@HIDDEN>; 1337 days old.
• #24234: Recursive diff noise for broken symlinks, fifos and sockets
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap@HIDDEN>; 1258 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>; 1244 days old.
• #24397: Binary files and --label option
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@HIDDEN>; 1233 days old.
• #25121: Bug with diff -y argument
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Oliver Dixon <oliver.w.dixon@HIDDEN>; 1146 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>; 1118 days old.
• #25402: Race condition in "colors" test
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>; 1112 days old.
• #25427: strip-trailing-cr makes -q not be quick
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Tom Vajzovic <t.gnutools@HIDDEN>; 1108 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>; 1080 days old.
• #25664: util.c of diffutils 3.5 fails to build on Windows
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 1080 days old.
• #25814: Windows same_file macro is not reliable
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 1069 days old.
• #26052: Feature suggestion: Identifying identical files
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Victor Porton <porton@HIDDEN>; 1051 days old.
• #26572: problem with "diff --color": escape sequences shouldn't span multiple lines
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: <ian_bruce@HIDDEN>; 1011 days old.
• #27063: make check FAIL for diffutils-3.6
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Michael Felt <michael@HIDDEN>; 976 days old.
• #27241: diff command modified my file
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Hong Jehn <hongjehn@HIDDEN>; 965 days old.
• #28022: GNU diff, autowrap for long lines
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Wei-Shun Lo <raliclo@HIDDEN>; 900 days old.
• #28796: diff 3.6 still reports a diff on identical lines
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 835 days old.
• #28851: [bug-diffutils] - Directories compare doesn't show all differences
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 832 days old.
• #29139: add --include for recursive searches
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kevin Hunter Kesling <hunteke@HIDDEN>; 813 days old.
• #29311: Byte comparison from cmp diffutils
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "s3gmentationfault@HIDDEN" <s3gmentationfault@HIDDEN>; 801 days old.
• #29510: 3-way merge, diff3 lacking features
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Lluís Batlle i Rossell <viric@HIDDEN>; 786 days old.
• #30574: Support different charsets
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Victor Porton <porton@HIDDEN>; 702 days old.
• #30913: Releasing a build compatible with glibc-2.26+
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: The Fireplace <the.f1repl4ce@HIDDEN>; 674 days old.
• #31185: Why is there no full support for Unicode?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Keepun <keepun@HIDDEN>; 649 days old.
• #31199: Diff sym link bug
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Alessandro <mirio@HIDDEN>; 648 days old.
• #31370: Can not make Diffutils on Debian
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: ateymuri <ateymuri63@HIDDEN>; 631 days old.
• #31577: Using -S / --starting-file causes diff to miss some files
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Maxim Baz <lists.gnu@HIDDEN>; 612 days old.
• #31583: short option for --no-dereference (again)
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Denis Excoffier <bug-tar@HIDDEN>; 611 days old.
• #31830: diffutil bug report
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: ZI WANG <zw@HIDDEN>; 590 days old.
• #32353: Failing test with diffutils 3.6 on SLES12 with gcc7 compiler
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Kees Dekker <Kees.Dekker@HIDDEN>; 541 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>; 535 days old.
• #32505: colorize the changed text a different color?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@HIDDEN>; 521 days old.
• #32993: Pathologically slow operation
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Stefan Monnier <monnier@HIDDEN>; 474 days old.
• #33144: Replace some loops with str functions
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "Kapus, Timotej" <timotej.kapus13@HIDDEN>; 458 days old.
• #33176: cmp bug
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Дмитрий Маренков <marenkovdmitriy@HIDDEN>; 455 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>; 433 days old.
• #33467: "diff" can not scan directories with same dev/inode
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Delian Krustev <krustev-diffutils@HIDDEN>; 429 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>; 401 days old.
• #33947: Failure building diffutils-3.7 (openSUSE:Factory)
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Sean Lewis <sean@HIDDEN>; 389 days old.
• #33965: handling of closed file descriptors
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 387 days old.
• #33970: Issue dpkg with diff
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Sergio Sámano <sergio_samano_salazar@HIDDEN>; 387 days old.
• #34259: --*-line-format results are different from the default.
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 360 days old.
• #34376: How to submit a bug fix?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Richard Gering <Richard.Gering@HIDDEN>; 352 days old.
• #34519: Test "colors" fails on Debian/ppc64el
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>; 342 days old.
• #34578: Support for different coloration of --- and +++ headers?
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Josh Triplett <josh@HIDDEN>; 340 days old.
• #34705: Cannot get white space to be ignored
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Mallika Bachan <mallika.bachan@HIDDEN>; 330 days old.
• #35214: [Bug][diff][3.3] diff showing difference when there is none
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: 方然 <ufo2243@HIDDEN>; 291 days old.
• #35451: Typo in the manual
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@HIDDEN>; 273 days old.
• #35730: Diffutils manual refers to wrong node of Emacs manual
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: jorge+list@HIDDEN (Jorge P. de Morais Neto); 256 days old.
• #36488: diffutils 3.7 make check failure ppc64le opensuse on colors test
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Normand <normand@HIDDEN>; 207 days old.
• #36842: Bug when colors and -C used together
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Alex Meiburg <Alex.Meiburg@HIDDEN>; 180 days old.
• #37381: [diff] recursive matching: compare symlink targets by default
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap@HIDDEN>; 136 days old.
• #37844: [PATCH] cmp -x/--verbose-hex
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: "dmo2118@HIDDEN" <dmo2118@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 97 days old.
• #38779: Document conflicting options better
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 28 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>; 2315 days old.
• #15685: identical errors
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: gregrwm <backuppc-users@HIDDEN>; 2286 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; 2277 days old.
• #16317: fail fast mechanism for GNU diff
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Karl-Philipp Richter <krichter722@HIDDEN>; 2215 days old.
• #16408: Bug#734840: diff -R (aka diff --reverse)? (fwd)
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Santiago Vila <sanvila@HIDDEN>; 2207 days old.
• #16613: diff -r with .gz files in the directories
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 2184 days old.
• #19794: Feature Request - CMP
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Pádraig Brady <P@HIDDEN>; 1814 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>; 1663 days old.
• #23950: An enhancement request
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Dr. Randall Fisher" <randall.fisher@HIDDEN>; 1293 days old.
• #24304: Latest release 3.5
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Claude <lamy.claude@HIDDEN>; 1249 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>; 761 days old.
• #34930: diff enhancement request
  Package: diffutils; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Michael Aramini <m.aramini@HIDDEN>; 311 days old.

Important bugs - resolved:

• #38574: Bug#946620: diff called 'GNU'
  Package: diffutils; Severity: important; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>, 946620@HIDDEN; Done: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>.

Normal bugs - resolved:

• #39184: Documentation says "at present"
  Package: diffutils; Reported by: Roland Illig <roland.illig@HIDDEN>; Done: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>.

Minor bugs - resolved:

• #32398: No trackers on Savannah
  Package: diffutils; Severity: minor; Reported by: Philippe Cloutier <chealer@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.