Debian Bug report logs - #558485
patch creates backup files with 000 perms for newly created files

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: patch creates backup files with 000 perms for newly created files

Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:25:46 +0100

Package: patch
Version: 2.5.9-5
Severity: normal

Patch suffers from a mis-feature, namely that it creates backup files with
000 perms when the patch creates a new file (and thus there's no original
file to backup). It's documented but apparently that behaviour has changed
in patch 2.6.
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.6.tar.gz

-b  or  --backup
  Make  backup  files.   That is, when patching a file, rename or copy the
  original instead of removing it.  When backing up a file that  does  not
  exist,  an  empty, unreadable backup file is created as a placeholder to
  represent the nonexistent file.  See the -V or --version-control  option
  for details about how backup file names are determined.

This behaviour leads to uncopyable files which is a pain in particular for
quilt (cf #534840) and it would be nice to see a fixed version of patch in
sid.

Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages patch depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries

patch recommends no packages.

Versions of packages patch suggests:
pn  diff-doc                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  ed                            1.4-1      The classic UNIX line editor

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Message #14 received at 558485-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>

To: 558485-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#558485: fixed in patch 2.6-1

Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:02:23 +0000

Source: patch
Source-Version: 2.6-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
patch, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

patch_2.6-1.diff.gz
  to main/p/patch/patch_2.6-1.diff.gz
patch_2.6-1.dsc
  to main/p/patch/patch_2.6-1.dsc
patch_2.6-1_amd64.deb
  to main/p/patch/patch_2.6-1_amd64.deb
patch_2.6.orig.tar.gz
  to main/p/patch/patch_2.6.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 558485@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> (supplier of updated patch package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:22:49 +0100
Source: patch
Binary: patch
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2.6-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Changed-By: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Description: 
 patch      - Apply a diff file to an original
Closes: 271946 372769 386188 402737 445309 558485
Changes: 
 patch (2.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version. Fixes:
     + Closes: #402737: append to .rej files instead of overwriting them
     + Closes: #372769: patch aborts with "pch.c:622: intuit_diff_type:
       Assertion `i0 != NONE' failed."
     + Closes: #558485: patch creates backup files with 000 perms for newly
       created files
     + Closes: #386188: -o creates empty output on null patch
     + Closes: #271946: fails to create new files when POSIXLY_CORRECT is set
     + Closes: #445309: output result to stdout
   * Document in NEWS that the unified-reject-files and global-reject-file
     options are now included upstream, but called differently.
   * Enable test suite.
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