Your message dated Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:17:37 +0000
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and subject line Bug#685238: fixed in coreutils 8.20-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #685238,
regarding data loss on 'sort -u'
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Package: coreutils
Version: 8.13-3.1ubuntu1
Severity: important
Original UBuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug/1038468
Original Upstream bug: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9780
Last year a bug was reported to upstream coreutils [1] about problems on using
'sort -u'. Until recently, there was no known reproducing process; one such
process was published last week [2].
Although triggering the bug can be said to be a non-completely trivial use
case, data loss in 'sort' should be looked at as a serious issue.
Today Jim Meyering committed what looks like the final touches of the fix
(incidentally also solving a different issue (a free memory read), also in
'sort'. There are 4 commits affected, and they are shown starting in [3].
Given this is a data loss potential, I am opening this bug for all affected
releases (this bug affects Coreutils 8.9 onwards -- Precise and Quantal). I am
still to run the tests on Lucid, Natty, and Oneiric.
[1] http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9780
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2012-08/msg00027.html
[3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2012-08/msg00057.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers quantal-updates
APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500,
'quantal-proposed'), (500, 'quantal'), (100, 'quantal-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.7ubuntu3
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10ubuntu1
ii libacl1 2.2.51-8ubuntu1
ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-8ubuntu1
ii libc6 2.15-0ubuntu17
ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5ubuntu1
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
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Source: coreutils
Source-Version: 8.20-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
coreutils, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Stone <[email protected]> (supplier of updated coreutils package)
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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:49:45 -0500
Source: coreutils
Binary: coreutils mktemp
Architecture: source all amd64
Version: 8.20-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Stone <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Michael Stone <[email protected]>
Description:
coreutils - GNU core utilities
mktemp - coreutils mktemp transitional package
Closes: 653073 685238 693171
Changes:
coreutils (8.20-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream version
- fixes possible data loss in sort -u (from 8.6) (Closes: #685238)
- df prefers shorter device names (Closes: #653073)
* Update watch file (Closes: #693171)
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