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Potential regression: cp --preserve=mode or --preserve=all fails to copy files from subdirectory

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From: Sam James <sam <at> gentoo.org>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 63245-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, kdudka <at> redhat.com, schlomo <at> schapiro.org
Subject: Re: bug#63245: Potential regression: cp --preserve=mode or
 --preserve=all fails to copy files from subdirectory
Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 22:47:43 +0100

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Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes:

> On 05/05/2023 02:39, Sam James wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com> writes:
>> 
>>> On 04/05/2023 12:27, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> On 04/05/2023 07:27, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
>>>>> Hi Pádraig,
>>>>>
>>>>> thank you, that will not yet fix the problem in the older distros? What
>>>>> about the RPM world with Fedora/RHEL and Archlinux? As far as I can tell
>>>>> all cp version 9.x are affected by this.
>>>> I'll handle the Fedora 37/38 fixes.
>>>> RHEL/Centos and current Archlinux are not affected AFAICS.
>>>
>>> Fedora 37 and 38 updates are now pending (cc Kamil):
>>> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-65365355b3
>>> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-4beb422aac
>>>
>>> The Fedora patches should also apply to the debian bookworm package,
>>> so I've opened bugs accordingly at:
>>>
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/1035530
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/1035531
>>>
>>> Schlomo, the second one is the one you're particularly interested in.
>> This is relevant to coreutils-9.3, right? 
>
> Right. Specifically only this bug applies to 9.3. I.e.:
> https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/c6b1fe434
>
>> In that case, the only way
>> I found out Gentoo was affected was by reading bug-coreutils by chance.
>> It's not feasible for all package maintainers to read all bug
>> trackers
>> regularly for all software in their distributions.
>> If it's worth filing bug reports in each distro for, it's either
>> worth
>> a new release
> Right. I didn't inform distros that generally go with the latest coreutils
> (including Fedora rawhide), as I was planning to do a 9.4 release soonish
> to address this (and other bugs), and so it would get picked up automatically.
>

That works too, thank you very much! :)

>> or at least an email to the distributions <at> lists.linux.dev mailing list.
>
> TIL
>

best,
sam

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