[Bug 1384503] Re: rsync fails on large files with compression

[Robie Basak]

Sorry Charles, but a patch that is known to work just in one case isn't
really sufficient for an SRU. It is useful and I appreciate your
contribution, but alongside it we need to analyse and understand the
regression risk for other valid use cases. This is the "Regression
Potential" section of the SRU paperwork, together with the SRU
Verification process that is documented. I asked for this in comment #8
in the same bug, but nobody responded.

This isn't unnecessary or bureaucratic red tape. The process is there to
ensure that we do not regress millions of users by trying to fix a bug
that doesn't affect them.

I'm not willing to upload your patch for SRU review because I don't know
what other behaviour it might regress. In order to perform the required
analysis, a complete failure case (which in this case needs the correct
test data for a failure case) would be most useful.

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