tech-pkg: pkgdiff reports unnecessary changes

Subject: pkgdiff reports unnecessary changes
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Klaus Heinz <k.heinz.nov.zwei@onlinehome.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/20/2002 20:02:00

Hi,
I observe a change in the output of patchdiff/pkgdiff.
 $ cd /usr/pkgsrc/mail/spamassassin
 $ make patch
 $ mkpatches
 $ patchdiff
 ... 
 Comparing patches/patch-ae to
 ../../../workobj-pkgsrc/mail/spamassassin/work.i386/.newpatches/patch-af
 5c5
 < @@ -831,7 +831,8 @@
 ---
 > @@ -831,7 +831,8 @@ sub cleanupchildren {
 Comparing patches/patch-ab to
 ../../../workobj-pkgsrc/mail/spamassassin/work.i386/.newpatches/patch-aa
 5c5
 < @@ -134,8 +134,8 @@
 ---
 > @@ -134,8 +134,8 @@ INST_PREFIX = $instprefix
 ...
 Comparing patches/patch-ad to
 ../../../workobj-pkgsrc/mail/spamassassin/work.i386/.newpatches/patch-ae
 13c13
 < @@ -34,6 +35,6 @@
 ---
 > @@ -34,6 +35,6 @@ command_args="-d -r ${pidfile}"
 ...
The additional output after '@@' seems to be caused by the option '-p'
('Show which C function each change is in') for 'diff' in the 'pkgdiff'
script.
I never saw this before and cannot explain why it happens now. As far as
I can see, there have been no changes to the script 'pkgdiff' in the
recent past, only to the Makefile.
This is pkgdiff-0.107 on NetBSD 1.5.4_ALPHA.
Does this happen for others as well?
ciao
 Klaus