Re: VistA packaging : vista-foia : First review

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Luis,

> > my $ret=system("$xdelta_program delta -9 --pristine $recreatetarball
> > $tarball $delta{delta}")
> > 
> > (or something along those lines) to trigger the use of compression,
> > and to make it compare tar files in their compressed form, instead
> > of their uncompressed one.
> > 
> > This probably would have to be brought to the maintainers of pristine-tar...
> 
> We should in any case report the result of your analyses to the
> maintainers of pristine-tar.  Please file a bug report against xdelta
> by either including your analysis or linking to your analysis mail in
> the archive of the mailing list.  (Please check before BTS if this is
> a known problem).

So the problem is known (for ages): #145370 & #205112
  
> In addition you could file a bug to pristine-tar maintainers to use
> xdelta3 instead of xdelta to avoid the problem you reported in
> #<bugnumber>.
> 

I think I'll manage this before I need to leave here.

Kind regards

       Andreas. 

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