On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> Did you noticed > > $ LANG=C apt-cache search xdelta | grep ^x > xdelta - A diff utility which works with binary files > xdelta3 - Diff utility which works with binary files > > ... so probably there would have been a shortcut from installing xdelta3 > from upstream source - but again ... thanks for your intense work on > this! > > Ah !, I missed that entirely. The irony of working on a packaging task, and missing the option of.... installing a package. :-) > Suggestion A: > > =========== > > > [DEFAULT] > > pristine-tar = False > > Admittedly I would not like this. > > Ok, we scratch this option then. > > > > > > This probably would have to be brought to the maintainers of > pristine-tar... > > We should in any case report the result of your analyses to the > maintainers of pristine-tar. Please file a bug report against xdelta > by either including your analysis or linking to your analysis mail in > the archive of the mailing list. (Please check before BTS if this is > a known problem). > > Thanks for finding the existing bug reports on xdelta: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=145370 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205112 That seems to lead us to promoting the use of xdelta3 in pristine-tar. In addition you could file a bug to pristine-tar maintainers to use > xdelta3 instead of xdelta to avoid the problem you reported in > #<bugnumber>. > > Considering that some other packages are affected: > > $ apt-cache rdepends xdelta > xdelta > Reverse Depends: > debdelta > pristine-tar > vzdump > syncmaildir > > the maintainers might (or might not?) be kept in the row as well. > Yes, I'll track whether the pristine-tar developers have looked already at this issue. On the bright side, it looks like it will be an easy fix... but... have a software developer ever been wrong about that ? :-) > > > I'm probably missing other good alternatives. > > You missed the obvious one to file a bug report. ;-) > > Yeap, I was second guessing, in case I had missed something obvious. I'll look more into pristine-tar. Thanks Luis
