Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. I am unsure about this specific patch: I cannot find it being applied to GIT upstream, and -- per the ML -- discussions on this patch stopped without a final decision, still on 2007 (with the comment that 'cp --sparse=always' would do something similar).
Can you point me to where the coreutils maintainers were asking for it to be applied? Thank you. ** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- support dd conv=sparse for virtual machine images https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552739 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs