NEWS: note that a cp -p bug fixed in 6.7 affected releases before 6.0.

Problem reported by Soren Spies in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-08/msg00106.html>.
To be conservative, just say the bug was in all versions through 6.6.

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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2007-08-20  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       * NEWS: The old cp -p bug affected coreutils releases before 6.0.
+       Problem reported by Soren Spies in
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-08/msg00106.html>.
+       To be conservative, just say the bug was in all versions through 6.6.
+
 2007-08-19  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
 
        Avoid consuming too much seekable input when yesno is used.

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@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   Fix similar problems with cp options like -p that imply
   --preserve=ownership, with install -d when combined with either -o
   or -g, and with mv when copying across file system boundaries.
-  This bug affects coreutils 6.0 through 6.6.
+  This bug affects all versions of coreutils through 6.6.
 
   du --one-file-system (-x) would skip subdirectories of any directory
   listed as second or subsequent command line argument.  This bug affects