od: use gnulib printf replacement as necessary

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 GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
-* Noteworthy changes in release 6.12 (????-??-??) [stable]
+* Noteworthy changes in release 7.0 (????-??-??) [beta]
+
+** New programs
+
+  timeout: Run a command with bounded time.
+  truncate: Set the size of a file to a specified size.
+
+** New features
+
+  comm now verifies that the inputs are in sorted order.  This check can
+  be turned off with the --nocheck-order option.
+
+  comm accepts new option, --output-delimiter=STR, that allows specification
+  of an output delimiter other than the default single TAB.
+
+  md5sum now accepts the new option, --quiet, to suppress the printing of
+  'OK' messages.  sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum, and sha512sum accept it, too.
+
+** Bug fixes
+
+  od no longer suffers from platform bugs in printf(3).  This is
+  probably most noticeable when using 'od -tfL' to print long doubles.
+
+** Improvements
+
+  Improved support for access control lists (ACLs): On MacOS X, Solaris 7..10,
+  HP-UX 11, Tru64, AIX, IRIX 6.5, and Cygwin, "ls -l" now displays the presence
+  of an ACL on a file via a '+' sign after the mode, and "cp -p" copies ACLs.
+
+
+* Noteworthy changes in release 6.12 (2008-05-31) [stable]
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  chcon, runcon: --help output now includes the bug-reporting address
+
+  cp -p copies permissions more portably.  For example, on MacOS X 10.5,
+  "cp -p some-fifo some-file" no longer fails while trying to copy the
+  permissions from the some-fifo argument.
+
   id with no options now prints the SELinux context only when invoked
   with no USERNAME argument.
 
@@ -11,6 +47,19 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   Printing of such large-numbered, kernel-only (not in /etc/group) group-IDs
   was suppressed in 6.11 due to ignorance that they are useful.
 
+  uniq: avoid subtle field-skipping malfunction due to isblank misuse.
+  In some locales on some systems, isblank(240) (aka &nbsp) is nonzero.
+  On such systems, uniq --skip-fields=N would fail to skip the proper
+  number of fields for some inputs.
+
+  tac: avoid segfault with --regex (-r) and multiple files, e.g.,
+  "echo > x; tac -r x x".  [bug present at least in textutils-1.8b, from 1992]
+
+** Changes in behavior
+
+  install once again sets SELinux context, when possible
+  [it was deliberately disabled in 6.9.90]
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 6.11 (2008-04-19) [stable]