Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2014-02-17 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Magnus Holmgren] > I have not forwarded the patch eliminating MAXPATHLEN yet, if that is > what you mean. I did ask on the mailing list about releasing a new > version with what's currently in git though. Thank you for fixing libtar on Hurd and follow up on the issues with upstream. :) I hope t

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2014-02-13 Thread Magnus Holmgren
torsdagen den 13 februari 2014 09.03.36 skrev Petter Reinholdtsen: > Hi again. Is there a new upstream version planned soon fixing this > build problem, or is it better to patch the Debian package? I have not forwarded the patch eliminating MAXPATHLEN yet, if that is what you mean. I did ask on

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2014-02-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Hi again. Is there a new upstream version planned soon fixing this build problem, or is it better to patch the Debian package? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2014-02-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Magnus Holmgren] > I've updated your updated patch. Any comments? Perhaps my > realloc_if_needed() code is overly complicated. I'm guessing that > free()ing buf and malloc()ing it again is in practice going to reuse > the same memory anyway, and the overhead is negligible. Tried to apply it on th

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2014-02-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
söndagen den 9 februari 2014 19.35.06 skrev Magnus Holmgren: > fredagen den 31 januari 2014 23.01.54 skrev du: > > I've attached an updated patch solving some of the issues upstream > > commented on in the last patch. I have not had time to update all of > > it yet, but thought it best to check i

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2014-02-09 Thread Magnus Holmgren
fredagen den 31 januari 2014 23.01.54 skrev du: > I've attached an updated patch solving some of the issues upstream > commented on in the last patch. I have not had time to update all of > it yet, but thought it best to check if it would get accepted into > Debian even if upstream refuse to inclu

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2014-02-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > I've attached an updated patch solving some of the issues upstream > commented on in the last patch. I have not had time to update all > of it yet, but thought it best to check if it would get accepted > into Debian even if upstream refuse to include it. I've now had time

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2014-01-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Hi. This libtar build failure on hurd block vlc and a few other packages from building on Debian/Hurd. Any chance to get a added to the Debian package while we wait for upstream to fix it? I've attached an updated patch solving some of the issues upstream commented on in the last patch. I have

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2012-01-26 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On torsdagen den 26 januari 2012, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 22:19 +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > I'll have a look and forward it to the libtar mailing list. There > > actually is sort of an official unofficial upstream at > > http://repo.or.cz/w/libtar.git since a while back.

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2012-01-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 22:19 +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On tisdagen den 24 januari 2012, you stated the following: > > This patch solves the build problems for GNU/Hurd due to MAXPATHLEN > > issues. The solution is to make dynamic string allocations instead of > > using fixed length buffers. Th

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2012-01-26 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On tisdagen den 24 januari 2012, you stated the following: > This patch solves the build problems for GNU/Hurd due to MAXPATHLEN > issues. The solution is to make dynamic string allocations instead of > using fixed length buffers. The functions mkdirhier, basename and > dirname have all been checke

Bug#657116: libtar: FTBFS on hurd-i386

2012-01-24 Thread Svante Signell
Source: libtar Version: 1.2.11-8 Severity: important Tags: patch User: debian-h...@lists.debian.org Usertags: hurd Hi, This patch solves the build problems for GNU/Hurd due to MAXPATHLEN issues. The solution is to make dynamic string allocations instead of using fixed length buffers. The function