On Mon, 2026-07-20 at 19:22 +0200, Yoann Congal via lists.openembedded.org wrote: > From: Hongxu Jia <[email protected]> > > According to [1] > > As of the current version 1.0.8, bzip2 --version will print version > info but it will also continue compressing stdin: > > $ ./bzip2 --version > bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.8, 13-Jul-2019. > > Copyright (C) 1996-2019 by Julian Seward. > > This program is free software; [...] > > bzip2: I won't write compressed data to a terminal. > bzip2: For help, type: `bzip2 --help'. > > Debian (and its downstreams like Ubuntu) will patch this out [2], > making the < /dev/null unnecessary, port a part of debian patch > to fix the issue > > [1] > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59757176/why-using-dev-null-with-a-program-like-bzip2 > [2] > https://sources.debian.org/src/bzip2/1.0.8-6/debian/patches/20-legacy.patch/ > > Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Dubois-Briand <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[email protected]> > (cherry picked from commit ae4fe4263ba9d372f9b9e80df4ec4697b51c1f9b) > Signed-off-by: Jaipaul Cheernam <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <[email protected]>
Hi Jaipaul, What's the motivation for backporting this now? Applying this to scarthgap will change the behaviour of bzip2 on a stable branch, so we'd need a strong reason to do that. Best regards, -- Paul Barker
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