Debian Bug report logs - #322581
coreutils: /usr/bin/join missed its '-n' option. (Version 2.0 had it).

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dario Molina <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: coreutils: /usr/bin/join missed its '-n' option. (Version 2.0 had it).

Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:10:05 -0300

Package: coreutils
Version: 5.2.1-2
Severity: important


We have some scripts running on Woody that use /usr/bin/join to merge files based
on numeric data. We found this scripts to break when moved to a Sarge installation
because '-n' command-line option was completely removed.

(Should it be ranked 'critical' as breaking other software?).



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii  libacl1                     2.2.23-1     Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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Message #12 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thomas Hood <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Feature removed

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 12:24:41 +0200

severity 322581 normal
tags 322581 wontfix
stop

The -n option was added in woody and knowingly removed in sarge.

textutils (2.0-4) unstable; urgency=low
  * Fixed typo in the info documentation of uniq.
  * Added support for joining numerically sorted files.
  * Removed obsolete reference to default stop file (Matt Kraai,
    closes: #78386).

 -- Herbert Xu <[email protected]>  Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:32:51 +1000

coreutils (5.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
  [...]
  * remove join -n

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