Package: strip-nondeterminism Version: 1.14.1-2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hi, While working on https://people.debian.org/~rene/manual-strip-nondeterminism.diff (without the -f...) I noticed this: $ ls empty.zip empty.zip $ ls -l empty.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rene rene 22 10. Aug 2023 empty.zip $ ln -sf empty.zip test.zip $ ls -l *.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rene rene 22 10. Aug 2023 empty.zip lrwxrwxrwx 1 rene rene 9 6. Jun 13:05 test.zip -> empty.zip $ for i in `find . -name "*.zip"`; do strip-nondeterminism -t zip $i; done Normalized ./empty.zip Normalized ./test.zip (so simulate how it'd be ran automatically for all .zips anywhere) $ ls -l *.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rene rene 22 6. Jun 13:07 empty.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 rene rene 22 6. Jun 13:07 test.zip Now the symlink is gone and we have two identical files. This is bad. There are symlinks for a reason :) (e.g. /usr/lib/something to /usr/share/something for policy for arch-indep files.) Still happens on sid where i noticed. I think it should either ignore symlinks or follow them (in the above case either would have worked, if following the second call then would have nothing to normalize) Regards, Rene
