On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 9:38 AM Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> wrote: > > [please retain any CCs when replying; I am not subscribed to the list] > > Dear cpio maintainers, > > (I am not the Maintainer of cpio in Debian so was not alerted to the > issue until recently, but was asked to look into this.) > > The following bug was filed in Debian: > > https://bugs.debian.org/946267 > > … which reports a recent regression in cpio whereby --no-absolute- > filenames breaks the extraction of symlinks starting with /.
I reported a similar issue in November, and I don't think it has been fixed yet. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-cpio/2019-11/msg00013.html