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On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:32:34 -0400 |
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:17:08 -0400 |
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> > Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> It's troubling to me that projects are using lzma when it's on disk |
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> >> format isn't even final and the project has security issues. |
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> > You mean projects like 'GNU tar'? |
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> As far as I know Ciaran, all GNU projects have switched or are in the |
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> process of switching to lzma over bzip2. I believe the issue in |
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> question which prompted this original e-mail was due to coreutils. |
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> But I could be wrong. |
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You miss my point. GNU tar sometimes changes its on disk format (and |
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will be doing so again at some point for xattrs), and it's had security |
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issues. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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