Re: possible bug (rcs, version 5.9, occurs on Debian 7)

Bostjan Vilfan <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Aug 2014 11:24:37 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.rcs.bugs
Message-ID <CAAm34zqKnqiNYWkWg8KQdjt2yHyGCfOujhacFG57414rf21+Fw@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
I'm responding to your last message with the question about "ci --version".
I made that check and version is 5.9.2. So, to reiterate, "ci -l  In.cpp"
succeeds while "ci In.cpp" results in "Abort"
Regards,
bostjanv


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <[email protected]> wrote:

> () Bostjan Vilfan <[email protected]>
> () Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:09:14 +0200
>
>    (1) uninstalled the rcs version that gets installed in Debian 7 with
>          apt-get install rcs
>         (a version from the 5.8 series);
>
> That doesn't seem right to me.  Shouldn't it be "apt-get remove" or
> even more convicing "apt-get purge"?
>
>    (2) installed the latest version on the GNU site (5.9.2)
>
> It could be that the ci(1) you actually invoke in the following
> steps is actually the old one.  Did you check with "ci --version"?
>
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