New comment by paper42 on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/30546#issuecomment-827570226

Comment:
> For some deep GNU reasons https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recutils/?C=M;O=A stops at 1.8,
> while https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/recutils/ has the version with the bugfix included

1.8 is the latest version, 1.8.90 is a pre release before 1.9.

> (I'm reporting this here because it's not 100% clear to me if the GNU folks messed up updating the tarball
> or there's a problem with the update script; fwiw the exact same issue happens on debian/sid)

No one messed anything up I think, there just wasn't a release which fixes this bug yet. I am not sure what the update script you are talking about is, but debian packages recutils v1.8 without any patches just like void, so it's expected to not work there.