xsel for bionic corrupts data while xsel for cosmic doesn't
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xsel (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
There are some known data corruption issues with xsel 1.2.0, which have been fixed upstream (see https:/
For that reason, cosmic ships xsel 1.2.0+git9bfc13
For example, if you do:
$ printf '%7624s' | xsel ; xsel | hexdump
On bionic, the result is:
0000000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
*
0001dc0 2020 2020 2020 2020 0fd1
0001dca
which is incorrect (the last two bytes of the output weren't in the input), while on cosmic, it is:
0000000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
*
0001dc8
which is correct.
The xsel binary from the cosmic .deb package works fine on bionic. Would it be possible to ship it for bionic as well? EOS for bionic is only in April 2023…
Thanks a lot!