If the solution is going to be: to fix the programs that use the stat program so that they work either with the old or with the new behavior, and/or to add versioned Conflicts to coreutils for each package version containing a program that depends on the old behavior, then I would suggest that someone perform a systematic search through current Debian packages looking for the stat command so that all the required Conflicts can be added at once.
(I don't know how to do such a search. I'd be interested to know.) -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]