Re: Bug#453435: cpio cannot read its own tarfiles
Luk Claes writes ("Re: Bug#453435: cpio cannot read its own tarfiles"):
> Can you please include a diff so we can review it and have an idea about
> the impact of the update?
Well, as Clint says, I expect the diff would be something like that in
#358990. But note that I haven't reviewed that diff for correctness
and I don't know whether in fact that was the exact change made in sid
to fix #358990; nor do I know whether the same diff is correct in the
context of etch's cpio.
Russell Stuart appears to be the author of that patch and Clint seems
to have reviewed it. If they're too busy then I'd be happy to check
it again but I just wanted to be clear that my role so far has really
just been as a bug submitter who thinks that a bug described in the
way #358990 is probably ought to be fixed in stable.
My bug was indeed #453435. Clint thought that was a manifestation of
#358990 which seems plausible and I have seen no reason to doubt that
conclusion. My comments about updating stable are based on reading
#358990: the proposed for a stable update should be regarded as a fix
for #358990.
Thanks,
Ian.
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