xsel for bionic corrupts data while xsel for cosmic doesn't

[Jérémie Roquet]

Hi,

There are some known data corruption issues with xsel 1.2.0, which have been fixed upstream (see https://github.com/kfish/xsel/issues/28 for a single example).

For that reason, cosmic ships xsel 1.2.0+git9bfc13d.20180109 instead, which fixes at least some of these.

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!