zlib compression corrupts some files

[sylvain.mina]

Binary package hint: nsis

When I use nsis 2.46-1 (on Ubuntu 10.04) with default compression (zlib), it results in unusable installer. I my case, some jar archives seems to be corrupted.
When I compile the script, either without compression or lzma or bzip2, there is no problem at all.
When I compile the same script with the Windows version of nsis 2.46, and there is no problem at all (even with th zlib compression)

[sylvain.mina (sylvain-mina)]

I see that a patch concerning zlib has been commited for version 2.46-2, does it fix the problem I encountered ?

[sylvain.mina (sylvain-mina)]

Ok, it's fixed with the package 2.46-2...but when the update will be available on Lucid ???

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

@sylvain,

Can you please confirm that this bug is fixed in the 2.46-2 after actually using that version on Ubuntu. It should be possible to install the package from maverick on lucid machine if the dependencies are not too tight.

[sylvain.mina (sylvain-mina)]

Hi Onkar,

I've just tried to compile and execute the installer with the 2.46-2 version (no problem to install it). I confirm that the fix works fine on Ubuntu. I think we could close this issue.
So, will an update be provided for on lucid lynx ?

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

@sylvina,

I discovered this issue myself few days ago when I was testing embedding GTK+ installer in our own app's installer. The script had worked fine in Karmic and stopped working in Lucid. Since I was in hurry to create installer for testing purposes I used lzma compression.
I will try to get the fix in Lucid provided the fix is not too intrusive.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

The bug is fixed in the version in Maverick. We need to backport the fix to Lucid.

[sylvain.mina (sylvain-mina)]

That's would be fine :)

[Wolfgang Glas (wglas)]

Since this problem is fixed in maverick and upstream and the package nsis-2.46-1 is nearly unusable, please backport nsis-2.46-2 to lucid within a reasonable amount of time.

If there's anything I can help with in preparing the backported package, please come back to me.

  TIA and best regards, Wolfgang

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".