Package: gzip Version: 1.3.12-2 Severity: grave I'm sorry to report but the new version of gzip breaks dpkg-source in sid and thus cannot be used for package building anymore.
dpkg-source -b package-version gives: dpkg-source: failure: tar -xkf - gave error exit status 2 tar: Archive is compressed. Use -z option tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now The reason is that gunzip does not uncompress a stream anymore. This is with 1.3.12-2: finlandia!joey(tty6):/tmp/work/test/z> gunzip < ../manpages_2.52.orig.tar.gz | cat - > out finlandia!joey(tty6):/tmp/work/test/z> file out out: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Sun Jun 17 16:21:30 2007 finlandia!joey(tty6):/tmp/work/test/z> cat ../manpages_2.52.orig.tar.gz | gunzip > out finlandia!joey(tty6):/tmp/work/test/z> file out out: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Mon Jun 18 11:21:15 2007 This is with the older version 1.3.9-2: finlandia!joey(tty6):/tmp/work/test/z> gunzip < ../manpages_2.52.orig.tar.gz > out.tar finlandia!joey(tty6):/tmp/work/test/z> file out.tar out.tar: POSIX tar archive (GNU) finlandia!joey(tty6):/tmp/work/test/z> cat ../manpages_2.52.orig.tar.gz | gunzip > out.tar finlandia!joey(tty6):/tmp/work/test/z> file out.tar out.tar: POSIX tar archive (GNU) Please pass this upstream and restore the old behaviour. (And as a workaround, changing the inner working of dpkg-source may be adequate as well.) Regards, Joey -- Still can't talk about what I can't talk about. Sorry. -- Bruce Schneier Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]