[Filesystems-devel] Bug#749878: squashfs-tools: please add "LZMA with swapped field" patch

[Alberto Marmodoro]

Package: squashfs-tools
Version: 1:4.2+20130409-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,
the default unsquashfs does not support "LZMA with swapped fields"
files, which begin with: "shsq" rather than the usual "hsqs" magic
header.

This is important to access firmware files such as Intenso's Gmbh
"rt3055" embedded Linux SoC products. A patch to handle this has been
made available here, http://sourceforge.net/p/squashfs/patches/20/, and
may be applied to the latest snapshot of the program from SourceForge.

Recompilation with a Makefile that contains:
[...]
XZ_SUPPORT = 1
and further below:
[...]
LZMA_XZ_SUPPORT = 1
[...]
leads to a working unsquashfs executable, with the new capability.

Thanks a lot!
--
Alberto.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages squashfs-tools depends on:
ii  libc6      2.18-7
ii  liblzma5   5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  liblzo2-2  2.06-1.2
ii  zlib1g     1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

squashfs-tools recommends no packages.

squashfs-tools suggests no packages.

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