[Bug 1713690] Re: Restore /usr/share/doc/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight

[Steve Beattie]

Hi, I can confirm that the version in bionic-proposed
(1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.2) adds back the /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/diff-
highlight/diff-highlight to the git package.

I am currently working on a security update for git to address
CVE-2018-17456, and for bionic the security update will be based off of
the version in bionic-proposed. (That update has been uploaded to the
ubuntu-security-proposed ppa at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security-
proposed/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/).

** CVE added: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2018-17456

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Title:
  Restore /usr/share/doc/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight

Status in git package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in git source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in git package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  [ SRU Verification ]
  This is just a papercut, but diff-highlight was shipped built in the past (including in xenial), so dropping it in bionic was a regression.

  [ Regression Potential ]
  None, this is just shipping a built perl script in doc.

  [ Test Case ]
  Check that the file is now shipped and works when specified in the [pager] section as shown in the bug report.

  [ Original Report ]
  This was removed in my most recent upgrade on artful, 1:2.11.0-4 -> 1:2.14.1-1ubuntu3.

  This is particularly frustrating as it caused a bunch of git
  operations to start erroring for me, as I have the following in my
  .gitconfig:

  [pager]
   diff = perl /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight | less
   log = perl /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight | less
   show = perl /usr/share/doc/git/contrib/diff-highlight/diff-highlight | less

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