pax omits devmajor/devminor in ustar format

[Stew Benedict]

Binary package hint: pax

This shows up as a failure in LSB distribution testing. According to documentation of the ustar format, the devmajor/devminor should be included. I've submitted a patch to Debian and they've corrected their package. Ubuntu is the only distribution where this is still failing (since 9.04)

Ref:
http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2743

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609825 (patch attached)
stew@ubuntu1104-32:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: pax 1:20090728-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 21 07:07:44 2011
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: pax
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos)]

Please read the spec again:

   3,4
          Represent character special files and block special files respectively. In this case the devmajor
          and devminor fields shall contain information defining the device, the format of which is
          unspecified by this volume of POSIX.1-2008.

The devmajor and devminor values are NOT for the device the file is stored on,
but the “target” value of block and character device nodes. (The cpio formats
have both, ustar doesn’t.)

Closing as invalid; this is a bug in the LSB testsuite, not in pax.