Re: coreutils-5.2.1 'tr' bug

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Joel E. Denny just discovered a bug [1][2] in 'tr' of coreutils-5.2.1 which is
> already fixed in coreutils-6.4 or newer. But nevertheless, this indicates
> that the test coverage of 'tr' can be improved. Can you add this as a test?
>
> The command that leads to the bug is:
>
>   echo 'xyvw!$!H!
[...]

Hi Bruno,

Thanks for the report.
That's already covered by this test, from tests/tr/Tests.pm:

  ['bs-055', q|'a\055b' def|, "a\055b", 'def', 0],

FYI, that bug was fixed in July of 2004.  The fix appeared in
coreutils-5.3.0, released over two years ago.  People really shouldn't
be using such an old version of coreutils these days.