Package: gzip
Version: 1.3.12-9
Severity: wishlist
Please stop the usage of at least the gunzip shell-wrapper. Reasons:
- Needs a full-blown shell with its startup-cost, while it can be
replaced by 4 lines of C.
- May execute _any_ available gzip binary in the path, not only the one
provided by the package.
- Will prepend the contents of GZIP_BINDIR to PATH. There are clueless
programmers out there who clear the obviously problems like PATH from
the environment but not the rest, sudo was such an example.
Bastian
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