[Bug 314436] Re: package-diff can generate infinite output

[Colin Watson]

Possibly more than just this commit, but this seems to be the main one:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/diffutils.git/commit/?id=e3324651cc1f9f116754a4713e08bfb0bac50150

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Title:
  package-diff can generate infinite output

Status in Launchpad itself:
  Fix Released
Status in “diffutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Today, germanium's disk filled up because of this:

  -rw-r--r-- 1 lp_queue lp_queue 104G 2009-01-06 16:44 tmpHiK-
  la/udev_124-12_136~git+34ac42b-1.diff

  which is from package-diff.  Scott mentioned on IRC:

  <Keybuk> the udev tarballs have weirdisms in them
  <Keybuk> like looped symlinks and stuff
  <Keybuk> but that just spams stderr usually (and upsets dpkg-source)
  <Keybuk> it's in the test suite of sysfs weirdisms

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