realpath (1.19.coreutils.1) experimental; urgency=low

  Experimental switch to GNU coreutils version of `realpath' (the former 
  Debian version is temporally installed as `realpath-old').

  [ NOTE: This experimental package is provided for test purpose only
    to check if it would be safe to ask coreutils maintainers for
    including GNU realpath in theirs package. ]

  Even though the GNU version provides all the features of the old Debian 
  version, the behaviour is a bit different, namely:

    * GNU `realpath' and `realpath -s' commands require all but the 
      last path components to exist;
  
  whereas:

    * Debian version of `realpath' required all the path components to exist;
    * Debian version of `realpath -s' required no path components to exist.
  
  To get the old behaviour in GNU `realpath' additional option needs 
  to be used:

       Old Debian realpath       New GNU coreutils realpath
    ----------------------------------------------------------
      realpath    file(s)    =>    realpath -e    file(s)
      realpath -s file(s)    =>    realpath -s -m file(s)

 -- Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>  Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:17:12 +0200
