Bug#641019: pristine-tar does not work with tar files made by openSUSE

2012-01-04 Thread Mikołaj Izdebski
>> Do you consider alternative bzip2 implementations available in Debian >> (lbzip2, pbzip2, p7zip-full, libcommons-compress-java) as "commonly >> available implementations"? They all produce different compressed >> files for the same input file. Moreover, lbzip2-0.23 from stable >> produces differ

Bug#641019: pristine-tar does not work with tar files made by openSUSE

2012-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Mikołaj Izdebski wrote: > Do you consider alternative bzip2 implementations available in Debian > (lbzip2, pbzip2, p7zip-full, libcommons-compress-java) as "commonly > available implementations"? They all produce different compressed > files for the same input file. Moreover, lbzip2-0.23 from stabl

Bug#641019: pristine-tar does not work with tar files made by openSUSE

2012-01-04 Thread Mikołaj Izdebski
>> From theoretical point of view, for every plain (uncompressed) file >> there exist *infinite* number of bz2 compressed files that correctly >> decompress to the plain file. > > pristine-tar consists of a bet that, while this is certianly the > theoretical case, the number of actual implementatio

Bug#641019: pristine-tar does not work with tar files made by openSUSE

2012-01-04 Thread Joey Hess
Mikołaj Izdebski: > From theoretical point of view, for every plain (uncompressed) file > there exist *infinite* number of bz2 compressed files that correctly > decompress to the plain file. pristine-tar consists of a bet that, while this is certianly the theoretical case, the number of actual imp

Bug#641019: pristine-tar does not work with tar files made by openSUSE

2012-01-03 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
I applied the maxlen s/17/20/ patch to Debian's bzip2 1.0.6-1 package, installed the patched libbz2, and pristine-bz2 was now able to recreate KDE's tarballs using pbzip2 (which dynamically links to libbz2). I didn't have any problems with headers or anything else as mentioned in message 10. Just

Bug#641019: pristine-tar does not work with tar files made by openSUSE

2011-12-02 Thread Mikołaj Izdebski
Hello, This bug is much more generic. >From theoretical point of view, for every plain (uncompressed) file there exist *infinite* number of bz2 compressed files that correctly decompress to the plain file. In practice there exists number of different compressors that can create different compres

Bug#641019: pristine-tar does not work with tar files made by openSUSE

2011-09-12 Thread Joey Hess
Jonathan Riddell wrote: > openSUSE includes a patch to bzip2 to change a maxlength value back to > the pre bzip2 1.0.3 setting. This means upstream tars such as those > made for KDE can not be used with pristine-tar. > > Offending patch > https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=bzip2-ma

Bug#641019: pristine-tar does not work with tar files made by openSUSE

2011-09-09 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Package: pristine-tar Version: 1.14 openSUSE includes a patch to bzip2 to change a maxlength value back to the pre bzip2 1.0.3 setting. This means upstream tars such as those made for KDE can not be used with pristine-tar. Offending patch https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=bzip2-m