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"Lennart Borgman" <lennart DOT borgman DOT 073 AT student DOT lu DOT se> wrote in message 
news:43A07425 DOT 70205 AT student DOT lu DOT se...
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>>On Dec 14 19:30, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>>>I am having trouble with patch. My Cygwin patch (and my GnuWin32 patch) 
>>>says it is version 2.5.9. But where is the sources for this? I looked at 
>>>ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch and they only have version 2.5.4. How can 
>>>that be?
>>>
>>
>>Cygwin patch is 2.5.8.  The version is taken from some Linux distro, I
>>don't remember which one.  The sources are where the binaries are, use
>>setup.exe to pull them on your machine.  As for the upstream sources, I
>>have no idea.  The bug report list is bug-gnu-utils AT gnu DOT org.
>>
> Thanks for the information. It sounds a bit strange that the sources does 
> not come from gnu.org however. Something seems to be wrong here. I have 
> made a bcc of this message to bug-gnu-utils. I think the newest sources 
> should be available at gnu.org and its mirrors.
>
Well, path 2.5.9 is available from an official gnu server, but is in a very 
strange place:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/
diffutils? in the main archive it is in its own directory!

Also from what i can tell:
  Nothing from ftp://alpha.gnu.org is or has ever been offical.
  It houses development snapshots.

Note that the above may be incorect, but it is the best I am able to figure 
out.

Actually considering that the changelog of 2.5.9 indicates that it is an 
actual release, it seems likely that it was never moved over to the main 
site only because it was in the wrong directory. 



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