The patch file 'cpio-gets-undeclared.patch' was "de-applied" to the cpio sources when we upgraded cpio to 2.12 (92d0fcb6dc5). But, it was never deleted or removed from gnu-system.am.
So, should we delete it or re-apply it? I guess the answer depends on whether or not cpio still uses gets(). I searched for use of gets() in the cpio-2.12 source tree like this: $ grep -rI 'gets (' $ grep -rI 'gets(' All the results were uses of fgets(). Is that reasonable method of searching or should I continue with some other technique? Leo Famulari (1): gnu: cpio: Remove unused patch. gnu-system.am | 1 - gnu/packages/patches/cpio-gets-undeclared.patch | 45 ------------------------- 2 files changed, 46 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/cpio-gets-undeclared.patch -- 2.7.1