Hi Antonio,
Le 31/07/2018 17:05, Antonio Diaz Diaz a écrit :
On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:49:32 +0800 Ben Hutchings wrote:
The non-technical problem I see is that your upstream is dismissive of
valid bug reports ("but it's compatible with cat", "this bug is
impossible in C++!"), and that you are agreeing with this nonsense.
I think "valid" does not mean what you think it means.
First, 'zcat -t' is not standardized. Therefore it is not valid to
expect it to be portable.
Second, a bug report is not valid until the bad code is pointed out or
until a way to reproduce the failure is provided. Until then the bug
may be anywhere else. The problem is that in spite of my efforts I
have been unable to reproduce the problem reported in zutils' zcat. As
soon as you, or anybody else, provide a way to reproduce the problem,
or point out the cause of the bug, I'll fix it in 24h. Until then
there is not much that I can do.
I did provide a way to reproduce the problem, and Daniel reproduced it;
I will readily admit that it's neither convenient nor particularly
useful
to identify the source of the problem, but dismissing this because
there's no way to reproduce it seems rather unfair to me.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=902936#5 for
details. (I did also suggest that the real issue may lie somewhere else,
since zutils 1.7 exhibits the bug if it's built on Debian stable, and
doesn't if it's built on unstable.)
Stephen Kitt, please, could you send me the smallest file (not
necessarily an initramfs) that causes zcat to crash? Thanks.
I'll try to come up with a smaller example; I'm rather busy just now so
it might take me a couple of weeks to get round to it.
Regards,
Stephen
