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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: cscvs: curruption of binary files
- From: Brian May <bam@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 15:44:30 +1000
- Message-id: <20040402054430.BDECA294B9@snoopy.apana.org.au>
Package: cscvs
Version: 1.0pre25.patch.79-3
Severity: normal
As discussed on the Gnu-arch-users mailing lists.
Binary files appear to be truncated at byte codes such as "0x00",
"0x1A" and "0x80" if these appear in binary data.
This doesn't appear to be TLA's fault or cscvs's fault, in fact
it would appear to be CVS's fault, as typing in the following command
will reproduce the curruption:
cvs -q update -p -r1.1 themes/default/trans-showings.png > /tmp/abc.png
It might be related to the -p option, as the normal CVS checked out
version is OK.
I was debating whether or not to file a bug report since it isn't
actually a bug against cscvs (as far as I can tell), but thought this
might serve to warn others before falling for the same trap ;-).
I can provide more information on request.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages cscvs depends on:
ii python 2.3.3-7 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-sqlite 0.4.3-2 Python interface to SQLite
ii tla 1.2-2 arch revision control system
-- no debconf information
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