Re: Bug 1035537 - split -n k/N gives incorrect data on blocks after the first

[Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>]

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 08:45:23PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> On 05/05/2023 05:14, Chris Frey wrote:
> > 	https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035537
> 
> At first glance, it looks like this could lead to data corruption, and hence
> warrant a 'grave' severity in the PTS.

Thanks for the response!  Yes indeed, the split file results will be
corrupt without the fix.

Is the severity level something I control, or the maintainer?


> However I believe both the Security Team (for a bullseye DSA or
> point-update, probably initiated by the maintainer) and the LTS Team (for a
> buster DLA, probably based on bullseye's) would rather get the coreutil's
> package maintainers input on the subject first (right now the BTS entry has
> no replies) :)

I'm assuming the package maintainers have a closer relationship to the
upstream maintainers than I do, but I can help if needed.

- Chris