Bug#208890: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#208890: ssh: scp -p makes wrong dates)
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 05:18:38PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 04:31:50PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > When I use scp -p with some files, I end up with Dec 31 1969 as their
> > > dates on the remote system.
> >
> > This was a bug in glibc (#202243 et al). Please upgrade to libc6
> > 2.3.2-4, which fixes this problem.
>
> I'm on a mixed testing/unstable system. Is upgrading to libc6 unstable
> currently prudent? It looks in a scary state right now. In particular,
> I'm using nfs (though the user space version), and I don't want to break
> it (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202756).
Your original report said that you were already running libc6 2.3.2-2.
According to #202756, if NFS were going to break for you it would
already have done so. My impression is that upgrading from 2.3.2-2 to
2.3.2-4 (or 2.3.2-5, which is current in unstable) is an unconditional
improvement.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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