Hi Frank, On Sun, 2021-02-14 at 16:06 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler via Elfutils-devel wrote: > commit 6c607f8df4ee6f7a31e25ed07d4fe43a11c32804 > Author: Frank Ch. Eigler <f...@redhat.com> > Date: Sun Feb 14 16:02:05 2021 -0500 > > PR27413: use bsdtar to unpack deb-related formats > > dpkg-deb has been reported to be fragile when running under > debuginfod, whereas bsdtar (libarchive) is happy with all these > flavors of files. Switch to a bsdtar based pipeline, now > equipped with an escaped glob pattern that adapts to a variety > of interior data.tar* compression formats. > > No testsuite impact. .ipk format tested with some random openwrt and > kino-extension binaries found on the net. Some of these are built > with out buildid, and hardly any with debuginfo, but whatever, bsdtar > and elfutils extract whatever info is there.
Thanks. Do we need a NEWS entry for this? As if people do read documentation :) It is probably unlikely might be that people have dpkg-deb installed, but not bsdtar. In which case their setup might suddenly break. If we have it in NEWS we can at least say "told you so". Cheers, Mark
