Package: libcompress-bzip2-perl Version: 2.09-1 Severity: serious When using the Compress::Bzip2 Perl module to compress an empty file, the resulting compressed file becomes corrupted. The bzip2 program however compresses them just fine.
Although I know compressing an empty file won't save much space, there is a program I'm working on called debpool which sometimes would need to compress empty files anyway (like the Packages/Sources files for distributions that have no packages uploaded yet). I've attached a simple script that could be used to replicate the problem. I've also attached a script that compresses a file into gzip format using the Compress::Zlib module, just as a comparison, and to show it works with Compress::Zlib. -- Regards, Andres
bzip2test
Description: Perl program
gziptest
Description: Perl program
