I got an email notification about a comment that was made on this issue by
@n3npq , but I can't see it here in the github webui. Quoting his comment from
the email notification:
> FWIW, rpm -qlv used exactly the same format as cpio(1) when implemented way
> back when.
>
> Continuing that practice of using the same format as cpio(1) preserves output
> compatibility.
I checked and tested cpio, and I can confirm it truncates names to 8
characters, but it always has space in between user and group name and hence
does not merge them. The format string is `%-8.8s %-8.8s`:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/cpio.git/tree/src/copyin.c?h=release_2_12#n779
I can't tell if that format has been used forever, but it's what's used in the
initial import to the above upstream git form 2004.
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