[Bug 1867390] Re: Update libarchive to 3.4.2

[Amr Ibrahim]

** Description changed:

- Please update libarchive to 3.4.2.
+ Please update libarchive to 3.4.2, also fixes LP: #1814109.
+ 
+ The bug and security fixes outweighs the new features added in 3.4.1 and
+ 3.4.2.
  
  https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases
  
  Libarchive 3.4.2 is a feature and security release.
  
  New features:
  
  support for atomic file extraction (bsdtar -x --safe-writes) (#1289)
  support for mbed TLS (PolarSSL) (#1301)
  
  Important bugfixes:
  
  security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1280 #1326)
  compression buffer fix in XAR writer (#1317)
  fix uname and gname longer than 32 characters in PAX writer (#1319)
  fix segfault when archiving hard links in ISO9660 and XAR writers (#1325)
- fix support for extracting 7z archive entries with Delta filter (#987)
- 
+ fix support for extracting 7z archive entries with Delta filter (fixes LP: #1814109) (#987)
  
  Libarchive 3.4.1 is a feature and security release.
  
  New features:
  
  Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
  New pax write option "xattrhdr"
  
  Important bugfixes:
  
  security fixes in wide string processing (#1276 #1298)
  security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1212 #1217 #1296)
  security fixes and optimizations to write filter logic (#351)
  security fix related to use of readlink(2) (1dae5a5)
  sparse file handling fixes (#1218 #1260)

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Title:
  Update libarchive to 3.4.2

Status in libarchive package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in libarchive package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Please update libarchive to 3.4.2, also fixes LP: #1814109.

  The bug and security fixes outweighs the new features added in 3.4.1
  and 3.4.2.

  https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/releases

  Libarchive 3.4.2 is a feature and security release.

  New features:

  support for atomic file extraction (bsdtar -x --safe-writes) (#1289)
  support for mbed TLS (PolarSSL) (#1301)

  Important bugfixes:

  security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1280 #1326)
  compression buffer fix in XAR writer (#1317)
  fix uname and gname longer than 32 characters in PAX writer (#1319)
  fix segfault when archiving hard links in ISO9660 and XAR writers (#1325)
  fix support for extracting 7z archive entries with Delta filter (fixes LP: #1814109) (#987)

  Libarchive 3.4.1 is a feature and security release.

  New features:

  Unicode filename support for reading lha/lzh archives
  New pax write option "xattrhdr"

  Important bugfixes:

  security fixes in wide string processing (#1276 #1298)
  security fixes in RAR5 reader (#1212 #1217 #1296)
  security fixes and optimizations to write filter logic (#351)
  security fix related to use of readlink(2) (1dae5a5)
  sparse file handling fixes (#1218 #1260)

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