Package: diffutils Version: 1:3.3-1 Severity: normal When diffing binary files that differ, e.g.
$ diff /usr/share/doc/diffutils/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/diffutils/changelog.gz Binary files /usr/share/doc/diffutils/changelog.Debian.gz and /usr/share/doc/diffutils/changelog.gz differ zsh: exit 2 diff /usr/share/doc/diffutils/changelog.Debian.gz I get exit status 2 instead of 1. The diff(1) man page says: Exit status is 0 if inputs are the same, 1 if different, 2 if trouble. We are in the case where the inputs are different, so that the exit status should be 1. Because of this bug, "svn diff --force --diff-cmd diff" fails on binary files (ditto on more useful cases in practice, where a diff wrapper is used to recognize some binary files, using the default diff behavior as a fallback). -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages diffutils depends on: ii libc6 2.17-97 diffutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages diffutils suggests: ii diffutils-doc 1:3.3-1 ii wdiff 1.2.1-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
