On 07/28/2018 11:57 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> did you see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903931#47 >> and following? > > It didn't show up on this bug's message log because you didn't write > the control commands properly.
I first dealt with #903931 by writing to it, and later merge #902936 with #903931. Can you explain how I wrote thecontrol commands for merging the bugs "not properly"? > it doesn't answer why it's OK to install that version of zcat as a > replacement for > GNU zcat. The zutils package description is: Description: utilities for dealing with compressed files transparently Zutils is a collection of utilities for dealing with any combination of compressed and non-compressed files transparently. Currently the supported compressors are gzip, bzip2, lzip, and xz. or in other words: That's the whole point of the package in the first place. > I'm sure some people like to have all the cat options when > using zcat interactively, but it is also used programmatically and > probably not only by initramfs-tools. You seem to have accepted that > and fixed it, so I don't know why you then assigned the bug back. I've quickly excluded the zcat diversion until initramfs-tools is fixed. Once the patch for initramfs-tools is in the archive to use the correct way to check for archive integrity, I would like to add it back. > The double-free bug in zutils zcat is presumably still unfixed, so I'm > cloning a separate bug for that. I'll ask upstream to help with that. Regards, Daniel
