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and subject line Bug#1152028: fixed in libarchive 3.8.10-2
has caused the Debian Bug report #1152028,
regarding Regression: 3.8.10-1 is unable to read empty tarballs and breaks
mmdebstrap ext2 and ext4 formats
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Package: libarchive-tools
Version: 3.8.10-1
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/3767
Control: affects -1 mmdebstrap
Hi,
the ext2 and ext4 format output of mmdebstrap is broken since the upload of
3.8.10-1 because mmdebstrap verifies whether mke2fs works with tarballs by
attempting to send an empty tarball to mke2fs. This is supposed to create an
empty 16384 block filesystem using mke2fs's ability to use libarchive for
reading tarballs on standard input. Instead what happens since 3.8.10-1 is this
error message:
E: __populate_fs_from_tar: Unknown code ____ 226 cannot read archive
header: "Truncated tar archive detected while reading next header"
E: mke2fs: Unknown code ____ 226 while populating file system
E: E: mke2fs failed with exit status: 256
Steps to reproduce (without mke2fs):
$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=10240 count=1 status=none | bsdtar tv
bsdtar: Truncated tar archive detected while reading next header
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
This is a regression in upstream commit b610fdfdd4b0 and not present in their
master branch. I'm making this bug RC severity because it makes my package
mmdebstrap unusable when creating bootable disk images, which is one of its
main use-cases, for example in the machinery we use for the MNT open hardware
computers.
Thanks!
cheers, josch
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Source: libarchive
Source-Version: 3.8.10-2
Done: Syed Shahrukh Hussain <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libarchive, 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.
Syed Shahrukh Hussain <[email protected]> (supplier of updated
libarchive package)
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:00:11 +0500
Source: libarchive
Architecture: source
Version: 3.8.10-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Gabriel Barrantes <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Syed Shahrukh Hussain <[email protected]>
Closes: 1152028
Changes:
libarchive (3.8.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium
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[Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues]
* Patch archive_read_open_filename.c to handle failed filename seeks
(Closes: #1152028).
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