[EPEL-devel] Re: EPEL-ANNOUNCE Major par2cmdline update for EPEL7

[Tadej Janež]

On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 13:22 +0200, Tadej Janež wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  new version of par2cmdline (0.6.14) is available for testing in
>  EPEL7:
>  https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-a952af80fb
>  
>  I've decided to to this major update because:
>  - It switches to the more actively maintained fork: https://github.co
>  m/
>  Parchive/par2cmdline.
>  - The version that is currently in EPEL7 (0.4.tbb.20100203-19.el7)
>  was
>  reported to not repair files and even leave them in worse condition
>  that before running par2cmdline: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug
>  .c
>  gi?id=1197560.
>  - The new version (0.6.14) has been included in Fedora 23+ since Nov
>  29, 2015: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-d36d127
>  ea
>  7 and there were no reports of major problems.
>  
>  Since par2cmdline is used for recovering corrupted files and as part
>  of
>  backup solutions, I'm emailing this list to warn people about this
>  update.
>  
>  To give enough time for thorough testing, I'm planning on leaving
>  this
>  in testing for at least 2 weeks. Please, test and report back! 
The new version of par2cmdline (0.6.14) has been pushed to stable
yesterday:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2017-a952af80fb

Regards,
Tadej