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

[Thorsten Glaser]

Asides from moving the binary from /usr/bin/pax to /bin/pax (and adding two others)
it’s fully compatible, yes. I’ve brought in all changes from OpenBSD and Debian before
uploading the rebased one to Debian.

If you _really_ fear, you can add the line
        bin/pax usr/bin/pax
to debian/links to keep 101% compatibility.

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Title:
  Please sync pax (1:20120216-1) from Debian sid (main) into into
  precise (main)

Status in “pax” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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
  • hardening with +all (including PIE)

  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.

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