diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index d805b925bc3..e393827d4a6 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ The <action> type attribute can be add,update,fix,remove.
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Null-guard Lister.main(String[]) for programmatic invocation.</action>
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">NPE in pack200.NewAttributeBands.Reference.addAttributeToBand(NewAttribute, InputStream).</action>
       <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Incorrect lazy initialization and update of static field in pack200.CodecEncoding.getSpecifier(Codec, Codec).</action>
+      <action type="fix" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Incorrect string comparison in unpack200.AttributeLayout.numBackwardsCallables().</action>
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot">Bump org.slf4j:slf4j-api from 2.0.8 to 2.0.9 #413.</action>
       <action type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.13.0 to 2.15.0.</action>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/compress/harmony/unpack200/AttributeLayout.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/compress/harmony/unpack200/AttributeLayout.java
index 32b70022d38..0948b074a35 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/compress/harmony/unpack200/AttributeLayout.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/compress/harmony/unpack200/AttributeLayout.java
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ public boolean matches(final long value) {
     }
 
     public int numBackwardsCallables() {
-        if (layout == "*") {
+        if ("*".equals(layout)) {
             return 1;
         }
         return backwardsCallCount;