cp: fix bug with fine-grained src to nearby coarse-grained dest

The actual fix is in gnulib's lib/utimecmp.c.
* NEWS: Document fix.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 ** Bug fixes
 
+  cp -u no longer does unnecessary copying merely because the source
+  has finer-grained time stamps than the destination.
+
   od now prints floating-point numbers without losing information, and
   it no longer omits spaces between floating-point columns in some cases.