Package: gzip Version: 1.5-1.1 Severity: important When run from a terminal, gzip will prompt the user whether they want to ovewrite the output file if it already exists.
For some reason, which I have not yet been able to identify, the debian build always overwrites, no matter what the user says. Rebuilding gzip from source on my machine with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt produces a binary that behaves correctly. Building it from source without that option produces a binary that fails. Since that suggests gcc might be part of the problem, my gcc version is: gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2 -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.8.2 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.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 dpkg 1.16.10 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10 ii libc6 2.13-38 gzip recommends no packages. Versions of packages gzip suggests: ii less 444-4 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
