Comment 2 for bug 73337

On my system, if I export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim, sdiff, then edit something, it does indeed launch VIM, however the data which I wanted to edit is not visible inside VIM, and when I save and quit, the output is null. Ditto if I use ed.

I noticed in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=320222 that it's mentioned that the bug is fixed in a more recent version of diffutils. Could we get that version or are we stuck with this broken version until debian upgrades?