Bug 647270

Summary:	sys-devel/patch-2.7.6-r1 stable request
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ulenrich <ulenrich>
Component:	Stabilization	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	leio
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	STABLEREQ
Version:	unspecified	Flags:	stable-bot: sanity-check+
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:	sys-devel/patch-2.7.6-r1	Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ulenrich 2018-02-11 04:07:17 UTC

The first of the NEWS announcements for patch-2.7.0 on
http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7361
was:
---
Support for most features of the "diff --git" format, including renames and copies, permission changes, and symlink diffs. Binary diffs are not supported yet; patch will complain and skip them.
---

But I learnd from trying the patch for kernel linux-4.14.10
it does not handle git diff statements int patches for mode execution bit. 
After an upstream bug report the new 

patch-2.7.6 
has correctly implemented this feature!

Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2018-02-11 08:28:25 UTC

2.7.6 is already available in the main tree since 7th Feb. Is this a fast stabling request or something?

Comment 2 Ulenrich 2018-02-11 12:44:05 UTC

Yeah
That bug for me on vanilla-sources and someone else on gentoo-sources
took some life time ... 
(but there quickly was a workaround introduced via patchset)

Comment 3 Ulenrich 2018-02-11 13:03:46 UTC

And isn't it funny that bug: 
The main achievement claimed for the patch-2.7
never recognized not working since 2012 ...
an example of how importand tests are ...

Comment 4 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-02-12 15:16:57 UTC

@ Arches,

please test and mark stable: =sys-devel/patch-2.7.6-r1

Targets: "alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"

Comment 5 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-02-12 21:38:50 UTC

x86 stable

Comment 6 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-02-13 07:50:52 UTC

commit 3e5901cabe8bdd357ed86ae8af7cbe91f985b842
Author: Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
Date:   Tue Feb 13 00:12:16 2018 +0100

    sys-devel/patch: stable 2.7.6-r1 for hppa/sparc, bug #647270

Comment 7 Jason Zaman gentoo-dev

2018-02-14 13:31:26 UTC

amd64 stable

Comment 8 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-02-17 22:13:28 UTC

ia64 stable

Comment 9 Tobias Klausmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2018-03-05 13:59:29 UTC

Stable on alpha.

Comment 10 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2018-03-15 14:15:09 UTC

arm stable

Comment 11 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2018-03-18 01:11:32 UTC

ppc/ppc64 stable

Comment 12 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2018-03-22 16:37:40 UTC

sh stable

Comment 13 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2018-04-24 15:16:51 UTC

arm64 stable

Comment 14 Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) archtester

2018-05-27 14:54:12 UTC

Done