[Debian-science-sagemath] Bug#844789: Bug#844789: iS: issue related to compressed manual.six

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 02:52:34AM +0000, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
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> On 23/11/16 09:59, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Can you generate a full strace dump ?
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> Yes. Unfortunately I have not yet succeeded to decipher them.
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> There is a `Broken pipe' somewhere.
> The piping seems to be related to the uncompresion of a `manual.siz.gx'.
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> A closer look to the gap code convinces me that zlib for gzip uncompression
> instead of piping through gunzip.

As I said zlib is stateful and does not handle rewind(), so this will
not fix the issue with compressed six.gz files.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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