Re: [sharutils-4.13.4] uudecode introduces extra newlines

[Bruce Korb]

On 04/10/13 04:39, Martin von Gagern wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I noticed that uudecode from sharutils 4.13.4 breaks some files, since
> it introduces incorrect newlines into its output, thus breaking the
> binary format of the output file. The most recent commit, 262472c1,
> already removes the TRY_PUTCHAR line in the read_base64 loop, so it
> seems to me that rolling a release from that should be enough. By the
> way, the bug was not present in 4.13.3. It would be nice to not have the
> broken 4.13.4 as the latest release much longer.

It won't be.  There are fixes in the pipe for this and MinGW and i18n,
but I'm leaving town for a couple of weeks.  So "not much longer"
will be measured in a few weeks.