bug#70699: Possible bug in /usr/bin/paste

[Art Shelest]

Good morning,

I am seeing an aberrant behavior from the /usr/bin/paste utility when working 
with Windows-style CR/LF text files.
The repro is for Mint Mate (Virginia).

If I change the line endings in the first file to Unix format (LF), it works as 
expected.
If I change the line endings to Max (CR), it breaks even worse.

$ hexdump -C letters.txt
00000000  61 61 09 41 41 0d 0a 62  62 09 42 42 0d 0a        |aa.AA..bb.BB..|

$ cat letters.txt
aa   AA
bb   BB
$ cat numbers.txt
1
2
$ paste letters.txt numbers.txt
aa   1A
bb   2B
$


Expected:
$ paste letters.txt numbers.txt
aa   AA   1
bb   BB   2

Thank you.