Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> This needs to go on top of pu, to cover all the good stuff >> cooking here. > > Better to work on top of 'master', as the work in 'pu' will be > rewritten several times, probably. We may not be able to find any good moment to update some codepaths with deep callchains that reaches a basic API function that take ulong that way, as things are always in motion, but hopefully a lot of areas that need changes are rather isolated. For example, the changes I see around "offset" (which is "ulong" and the patch wants to change it to "size_t") in archive-tar.c in the patch do not have any interaction with the changes in this patch outside that single file, and I do not think any topic in-flight would interact with this change badly, either. I didn't carefully look at the remainder of the patches, but I have a feeling that many can be separated out into independent and focused set of smaller patches that can be evaluated on their own.
