[compress] long uid/gids in tests (was Re: [DISCUSS] Release Compress 1.21 based on RC1)

2021-07-14 Thread Stefan Bodewig
>> Are there any tests that actually use the uid/gid of the current user? >> Compress will no read them by itself, so the only place things could >> fail was if we used native tar to create an archive. Is there such a >> test? If so we could try to adapt the test in question. On 2021-07-10, Henr

Re: [DISCUSS] Release Compress 1.21 based on RC1

2021-07-10 Thread Henri Biestro
> > > On a Mac that used LDAP, user ids and groups are 'long': > > henri.biestro@L-HBIESTRO-1 commons-compress % id > > uid=1447288081(henri.biestro) gid=1024222515 > > Didn't know that. > Neither did I! > > Are there any tests that actually use the uid/gid of the current user? > Compress

Re: [DISCUSS] Release Compress 1.21 based on RC1

2021-07-10 Thread Gary Gregory
FWIW, I set the date in changes.xml so that it goes with the RC git tag which then becomes the release tag. If the RC fails, then I update the date, so we have a clear record, YMMV. Gary On Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 06:12 Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2021-07-10, Bruno P. Kinoshita wrote: > > > The RELEA