File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.3811

<patchinfo incident="3811">
  <issue id="918058" tracker="bnc">GNU patch update breaks legitimate use of symbolic links</issue>
  <category>recommended</category>
  <rating>moderate</rating>
  <packager>jdelvare</packager>
  <description>GNU patch was updated to 2.7.5 to fix a functional regression introduced by the previous security fix.

The following bugs were fixed:

* The security fix would forbid legitimate use cases of relative symbolic links. [boo#918058]

The following changes are included:

* Do not change permissions if there isn't an explicit mode change.
* Fix indentation heuristic for context diffs.
</description>
  <summary>Recommended update for patch</summary>
</patchinfo>