On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 21:08 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 20:06, Adam D. Barratt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > + * apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc: > > + - reorder the loaded filesize bytes for big endian (Closes: #612986) > > > > Do we know when this got broken? It seems rather surprising that no one > > at all would have noticed pdiffs being broken on at least three > > architectures (mips, powerpc and sparc in squeeze, plus hppa in sid). > > pdiffs aren't affected in stable as they don't use FileSize. That was an > addition after squeeze release, but made the bug very visible as pdiffs > are enabled by default.
Ah, that would probably explain the lack of screaming pre-release then. :-) > Affected is the Acquire::GzipIndexes option (don't uncompress Packages > files and co but use them directly: Saves space, decreases performance). > Further more the method is used to check that the size of a file is not zero > in various places, so we have just luck that zero is the same everywhere… Thanks for the explanation. Please feel free to go ahead with the upload. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
