Package: gzip Version: 1.3.12-2 Followup-For: Bug #429462 /bin/gunzip is broken in environments, where $PATH does not include /bin. For me that is while using "bsmtpd" (Batched SMTP Daemon, no longer in Debian >=etch), since the UUCP Execution Daemon "uuxqt" only allows a very limited list of programs to be execute remotely via UUCP.
The culprit is: /bin/gunzip #!/bin/sh PATH=${GZIP_BINDIR-'/usr/bin'}:$PATH ^^^^ exec gzip -d "$@" Looking at the package content shows: $ dpkg -c gzip_1.3.12-2_i386.deb ... -rwxr-xr-x root/root 65 2007-06-14 06:19 ./bin/gunzip -rwxr-xr-x root/root 53868 2007-06-14 06:19 ./bin/gzip Since there is no "gzip" in "/usr/bin/", but in "/bin/", this fails! $ PATH= /bin/gunzip /bin/gunzip: line 3: exec: gzip: not found Removing the "/usr" prefix solves this: $ PATH= /bin/gunzip gzip: compressed data not read from a terminal. Use -f to force decompression. I don't know if this is the fault for "dpkg-source -x" failing also, but it would likely think so. If not, please clone this report. Please fix this ASAP, since this bug causes data loss! Luckily bsmtpd by default does do backups of those emails and I was able to recover them. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (989, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.5-laptop (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gzip depends on: ii debianutils 2.21 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries gzip recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]