Meld no longer compares with CVS Repository

[Bernie Hoeneisen]

Earlier versions of meld were comparing with the CVS repository, when using meld with files in a CVS.
In Version 3.16.3-1 (yakkety/universe) this is no longer the case, i.e. the comparison reports 'Files are identical' using the file in the local folder comparing it with itself.

[Bernie Hoeneisen (bhoeneis)]

The bug looks similar like this: https://github.com/rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs/pull/175 / https://github.com/rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs/pull/175

(Unsure whether those are connected as I have not enough knowledge of the underlying code. If there is a connection between the two bugs, the root cause is likely outside the meld package.)

[Bernie Hoeneisen (bhoeneis)]

Also affects version 3.18.0-6 (bionic)

[Bernie Hoeneisen (bhoeneis)]

This issue has been fixed upstream (basically re-add CVS support to meld). Thus, the following patch should be easy to apply, even to older versions of meld (at least it is very unlikely to render the situation worse):

- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld/commit/d06e19957d352e3afa29cd30c51899276253734f

Please add it to the active Ubuntu Releases! Thanks in advance.

cheers
 Bernie