Package: paq8l
Version: 20070308-1
Severity: important
When using high compression on files, even small ones like copies of
/etc/passwd, the screen starts filling with errors like these:
$ cd /tmp
$ cp /etc/passwd .
$ paq8l -9 passwd
Transform fails at 0, input=0 decoded=0, skipping...
Transform fails at -2147483648, input=0 decoded=0, skipping...
Transform fails at 0, input=0 decoded=0, skipping...
Transform fails at -2147483648, input=0 decoded=0, skipping...
This seems to be a known bug in related versions (see notes at
http://www.maximumcompression.com/index.html for a mention of this in
PAQ8O10), but I don't know if there's an upstream fix.
It's worth noting that at least in my test case, the problem goes away
with the standard compression level:
$ paq8l passwd
Creating archive passwd.paq8l with 1 file(s)...
passwd 1738 -> 540
1738 -> 565
Time 0.39 sec, used 233736464 bytes of memory
Close this window or press ENTER to continue...
so this seems to only affect larger files and/or files compressed at
higher compression levels.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages paq8l depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
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