Public bug reported: Hi,
apollo13 said on IRC that you’re going into Feature Freeze tomorrow. Please sync the new pax source package from Debian sid today. This is a switch of maintainer (Bdale Garbee → me) and code base (from OpenBSD’s to MirBSD’s with me also as upstream, actively developed and used a lot both in MirBSD, FreeWRT and Debian by myself, my employer and others), which adds some features (e.g. more GNU cpio compatibility) and bugfixes. It can also read and write BSD format ar(1) archives, which are these used by deb(5), see here: https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20110818-tg-g10046.htm Then I can work on bugs in pax in Ubuntu together with your team, and Bdale won’t be bothered any more. I do keep an eye on LP bugs for all packages I maintain, and I’m willing (within reason) to work together with *buntu. Unfortunately, since this source package is not an update to the previous one but a total new one, there is no “changelog”. The basic changes are: • Codebase OpenBSD → MirBSD • location /usr/bin/pax → /bin/pax • added /bin/paxcpio and /bin/paxtar links (and manpages) • no courtesy copies of BSD libraries any more, uses libbsd There are no Ubuntu changes that need to be overwritten, so a sync it is. I’ve built 1:20120216-1 also on Debian etch and Kubuntu hardy (with backported libbsd) today since we use these at work (not necessarily etch a lot but lenny, and the binary packages can just be copied) and tested it. ** Affects: pax (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933847 Title: Please sync pax (1:20120216-1) from Debian sid (main) into into precise (main) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pax/+bug/933847/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
