On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:21:34AM +0000, Mike Ashton wrote: >Package: pbzip2 >Version: 1.1.1-1 >Severity: important > >pbzip2, when run as root, does not preserve the user and group >ownership of the source file on the newly created .bz2 file if the >source file is zero length. > >This is inconsistent with its behaviour in lenny, but worse it is >inconsistent with bzip2 itself for which it should be a drop in >replacement. > >This may seem trivial (it's a weird edge case, I'll grant you), but it >just broke a lot of cron jobs following a dist-upgrade :) > >wilson:~# : >test1 >wilson:~# : >test2 >wilson:~# chown mike test? >wilson:~# pbzip2 test1 >wilson:~# bzip2 test2 >wilson:~# ls -l test?.bz2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14 Feb 1 11:19 test1.bz2 >-rw-r--r-- 1 mike root 14 Feb 1 11:18 test2.bz2 > >-- System Information: >Debian Release: 6.0.4 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') >Architecture: i386 (x86_64) > >Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) >Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8) >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > >Versions of packages pbzip2 depends on: >ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6+squeeze1 high-quality block-sorting file co >ii libc6 2.11.3-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib >ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library >ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 > >pbzip2 recommends no packages. > >pbzip2 suggests no packages. > >-- no debconf information
Hello Jeff, http://bugs.debian.org/658239 Could you please have a look at this bug for me? http://bugs.debian.org/pbzip2 BTW, could you please do the same with the other pbzip Debian bugs? Cheers, Anibal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
