Public bug reported: Hi,
There are some known data corruption issues with xsel 1.2.0, which have been fixed upstream (see https://github.com/kfish/xsel/issues/28 for a single example). For that reason, cosmic ships xsel 1.2.0+git9bfc13d.20180109 instead, which fixes at least some of these. For example, if you do: $ printf '%7624s' | xsel ; xsel | hexdump On bionic, the result is: 0000000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 * 0001dc0 2020 2020 2020 2020 0fd1 0001dca which is incorrect (the last two bytes of the output weren't in the input), while on cosmic, it is: 0000000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 * 0001dc8 which is correct. The xsel binary from the cosmic .deb package works fine on bionic. Would it be possible to ship it for bionic as well? EOS for bionic is only in April 2023… Thanks a lot! ** Affects: xsel (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/1818695 Title: xsel for bionic corrupts data while xsel for cosmic doesn't To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsel/+bug/1818695/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
