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.
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