Greetings everyone.

This is just a heads up, GNU has had a few changes floating around for a
while, and it looks like they are finally making it into distributions.

Currently, only Fedora is affected (which I doubt anyone here uses),
but it is possible that these changes will make it to Debian as well.

Attached is a copy of one user's thoughts on the `ls` command.

I'm not sure on the specifics of the change, but for most scripted uses
you would probably pass it the `-1` flag anyway.

If it doesn't list one file per line anymore, that could be quite
serious: we would need to use `dir` instead of `ls`!
That's a whole extra keystroke!

If the changes turn out to be serious, you might want to try
suckless.org's version. (I believe it is called "sutils" and "putils", I
can confirm that they work.)

----- Forwarded message from Mark Clarkson <mark.clarkson@???> -----

>Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:16:29 +0100
>From: Mark Clarkson <mark.clarkson@???>
>To: coreutils@???
>Subject: ls output changed !!
>
>Hi,
>This change nearly gave me a heart attack - do you want that on your
>conscience? hmm?
>
>Now we'll have to wait months after you change it back for the change
>to make it back into Fedora.
>
>I really can't believe someone would make a change like this to a core
>utility - I was stunned. For a brief moment I thought I'd been hacked.
>Please don't do stuff like that without saying first. I mean it should
>really be coded into the boot loader, yep, put it in grub so you can't
>even start the OS without out typing, 'I understand that ls output has
>changed and it will be shocking'.
>
>Please put it back ASAP. Thank you.
>
>Cheers!
>Mark Clarkson
>

----- End forwarded message -----

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