From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 16:50:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: .
X-Git-Tag: TEXTUTILS-2_0_14~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4451bd8a9f4d5739dd4781d2586f6b4c88d181bc;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

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diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS
index 01efc6313b..7bf07c721d 100644
--- a/old/textutils/NEWS
+++ b/old/textutils/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 Changes in release 2.1
+[2.0.14]
+* sort now accepts long options like "--reverse" and "--".
+* sort now checks option syntax as POSIX requires, except that (as usual
+  for GNU) options can follow file names unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
+  For example, invalid positional combinations like "sort +1 -r -2" are
+  now rejected as per POSIX.
+* The next POSIX standard will require that obsolescent 'sort'
+  positional options like +1 be treated as file names, not options.
+  Please use 'sort -k' instead.
 [2.0.13]
 * pr accepts new -D or --date option, to specify date format.
 * The following changes are required by POSIX: