Package: patch Version: 2.7.1-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
patch 2.7 refuses to patch files with absolute path names (without option -d/). This is an essential change in program behaviour and possibly breaks sysadm scripts. This change should be documented in the man page and announced as package news. Regards Uwe Example: $ patch -p0 </tmp/p Ignoring potentially dangerous file name /tmp/a.old Ignoring potentially dangerous file name /tmp/a can't find file to patch at input line 3 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |--- /tmp/a.old 2013-07-16 18:30:53.726805297 +0200 |+++ /tmp/a 2013-07-16 18:31:03.850761947 +0200 -------------------------- File to patch: /tmp/a patching file /tmp/a $ -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages patch depends on: ii libc6 2.17-7 patch recommends no packages. Versions of packages patch suggests: pn diffutils-doc <none> ii ed 1.6-2 -- no debconf information
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--- /tmp/a.old 2013-07-16 18:30:53.726805297 +0200 +++ /tmp/a 2013-07-16 18:31:03.850761947 +0200 @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ 1 2 -3 4 5
