[Rd] R-1.3.0-1.3.1.diff does not patch correctly

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

wb@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke) writes:

> Subj. says it. The patch contains several lines complaining about "No newline".
> After removing these the patch was applicable.

Odd. This worked cleanly when I tried it on RedHat 7.1. What version
of patch is this?

The offending lines are flagged with a \ in col.1, which is
undocumented in the info file for diff, but obviously discernible from
ordinary unidiff lines (which have either space, + , or - ). So I
suspect that a recent "patch" just treats that as a comment.

Looks like the problem could be difficult to avoid (except by ensuring
that we don't have any files without terminal newlines) since I see no
diff option controlling the behaviour.

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