misc/172882: bsdiff/bspatch need version information for synchronization with other forks

[anatoly techtonik]

>Number:         172882
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       bsdiff/bspatch need version information for synchronization with other forks
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 19 16:00:00 UTC 2012
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>Originator:     anatoly techtonik
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bsdiff in FreeBSD source is copied from canonical version of bsdiff 4.3 by Colin Percival available from http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/

There are also many forks with code improvements and potential bug fixes, but before starting any synchronization work there should be way to reference various versions of bsdiff.

I propose to add version strings to bsdiff/bspatch and print them along with usage hints. FreeBSD source tree looks like an official place for the source code now, so 4.4 sounds like a good start.

Sorry for not being able to contribute a patch. I am not a FreeBSD developer and won't be able to test the patch properly. Neither do I know the standards for embedding the version inside C code. I also find it slightly inconvenient to have 3 directories and 3 Makefiles to build tools that always come together.

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/bsdiff/
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