[Bug-cpio] mt: setting data compression / datcompression - do you accept patches?

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Following an upgrade from Debian Etch to Lenny, I saw that the
'datcompression' switch to 'mt', that I used to set compression
on/off, was actually a Debian patch:
  http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/misc/view/cpio/2.6-18.1+etch1/src/mt.c
  http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/misc/view/cpio/2.6-18.1+etch1/doc/mt.1
which was removed from their package at a point:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566752

Apparently SuSE has a similar issue:
  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=129866

Looking at submissions of this patch "upstream", I found several
references on this list, but no answer:
  
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=datcompression&submit=Search&idxname=bug-cpio

What is your (Sergey?) opinion on this patch?

-- 
Sylvain