28.01.2014 00:51, Ian Campbell wrote: > Package: busybox > Version: 1:1.22.0-2 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > The zcat applet seems to behave like cat unless the input file has a .gz > suffix: > > Given two identical files (compressed string "Hello World"), one with a .gz > suffix and one without:
Thank you for a very nice bugreport, and for further analysis. Much apprecated. (Initially I started bisecting and found the commit which inroduced the issue, and immediately found two more emails from you, pointing to the fixes). [] > I've given this severity critical since it break the installer by breaking at > least net-retriever. Well, I disagree about the severity, but indeed, it breaks unrelated software. So I prepared a new release (will upload in a few minutes) fixing this issue. Uncortunately, this whole mess around compression introduces another issue. After the 2 fixes for this bug, busybox zcat happily accepts uncompressed input and behaves like regular cat, while original zcat refuses to accept uncpmpressed input. I reported this upstream. But I think it is better to accept and use uncompressed data than to fail to decompress compressed data, and the current bug is indeed serious enough to have a quick fix. Thank you! /mjt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
