[Bug 933847] [NEW] Please sync pax (1:20120216-1) from Debian sid (main) into into precise (main)

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You have been subscribed to a public bug by Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos):

Hi,

apollo13 said on IRC that you’re going into Feature Freeze tomorrow.

Please sync the new pax source package from Debian sid today. This
is a switch of maintainer (Bdale Garbee → me) and code base (from
OpenBSD’s to MirBSD’s with me also as upstream, actively developed
and used a lot both in MirBSD, FreeWRT and Debian by myself, my
employer and others), which adds some features (e.g. more GNU cpio
compatibility) and bugfixes. It can also read and write BSD format
ar(1) archives, which are these used by deb(5), see here:
https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20110818-tg-g10046.htm

Then I can work on bugs in pax in Ubuntu together with your team,
and Bdale won’t be bothered any more. I do keep an eye on LP bugs
for all packages I maintain, and I’m willing (within reason) to
work together with *buntu.

Unfortunately, since this source package is not an update to the
previous one but a total new one, there is no “changelog”. The
basic changes are:

• Codebase OpenBSD → MirBSD
• location /usr/bin/pax → /bin/pax
• added /bin/paxcpio and /bin/paxtar links (and manpages)
• no courtesy copies of BSD libraries any more, uses libbsd

There are no Ubuntu changes that need to be overwritten, so a sync it
is.

I’ve built 1:20120216-1 also on Debian etch and Kubuntu hardy
(with backported libbsd) today since we use these at work
(not necessarily etch a lot but lenny, and the binary packages
can just be copied) and tested it.

** Affects: pax (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Please sync pax (1:20120216-1) from Debian sid (main) into into precise (main)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/933847
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