Debian Bug report logs - #279025
bzip2: bunzip2 -qt returns 0 for corrupt archives.

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Package: bzip2; Maintainer for bzip2 is Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>; Source for bzip2 is src:bzip2 (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Kieron Dunbar <kieron@dimetrodon.demon.co.uk>

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:18:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 1.0.2-1

Fixed in version bzip2/1.0.2-3

Done: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <A.Monsalve.Salazar@IEEE.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>:
Bug#279025; Package bzip2. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Kieron Dunbar <kieron@dimetrodon.demon.co.uk>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kieron Dunbar <kieron@dimetrodon.demon.co.uk>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: bzip2: bunzip2 -qt returns 0 for corrupt archives.
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 02:08:16 +0000
Package: bzip2
Version: 1.0.2-1
Severity: normal


"bzip2 -t FILE" returns 2 if FILE exists, but is not a valid bzip2 file.
"bzip2 -qt FILE" returns 0 when this happens, although it does print out an
error message as is does so.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4-110404
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB)

Versions of packages bzip2 depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0                  1.0.2-1      A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information



Tags added: pending Request was from Anibal Monsalve Salazar <A.Monsalve.Salazar@IEEE.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Reply sent to Anibal Monsalve Salazar <A.Monsalve.Salazar@IEEE.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (full text, mbox, link).


Notification sent to Kieron Dunbar <kieron@dimetrodon.demon.co.uk>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #12 received at 279025-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <A.Monsalve.Salazar@IEEE.org>
To: 279025-close@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#279025: fixed in bzip2 1.0.2-3
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 09:17:11 -0500
Source: bzip2
Source-Version: 1.0.2-3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bzip2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

bzip2_1.0.2-3.diff.gz
  to pool/main/b/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.2-3.diff.gz
bzip2_1.0.2-3.dsc
  to pool/main/b/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.2-3.dsc
bzip2_1.0.2-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.2-3_i386.deb
libbz2-1.0_1.0.2-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bzip2/libbz2-1.0_1.0.2-3_i386.deb
libbz2-dev_1.0.2-3_i386.deb
  to pool/main/b/bzip2/libbz2-dev_1.0.2-3_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 279025@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Anibal Monsalve Salazar <A.Monsalve.Salazar@IEEE.org> (supplier of updated bzip2 package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:48:21 +1100
Source: bzip2
Binary: libbz2-1.0 bzip2 libbz2-dev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.0.2-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <A.Monsalve.Salazar@IEEE.org>
Changed-By: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <A.Monsalve.Salazar@IEEE.org>
Description: 
 bzip2      - high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
 libbz2-1.0 - high-quality block-sorting file compressor library - runtime
 libbz2-dev - high-quality block-sorting file compressor library - development
Closes: 196264 220374 231144 256251 279025 282036
Changes: 
 bzip2 (1.0.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Fixed "Overly strict Depends (libc6-dev)" (Closes: #196264).
   * Fixed "bzgrep munges filenames with '&' in them" (Closes: #231144).
   * Fixed "bunzip2 -qt returns 0 for corrupt archives" (Closes: #279025).
   * Fixed "bzip2 --version should exit with success" (Closes: #220374).
   * Fixed "Several XSI:isms in package" (Closes: #256251).
     Patch by David Weinehall <tao@debian.org>
   * Enable bzip2 to cross-build (Closes: #282036).
     Patch by NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org>
   * Fixed lintian warning "bzip2 libbz2-1.0 libbz2-dev binaries:
     postinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link".
   * Fixed lintian warning "bzip2 binary: package-contains-hardlink
     usr/bin/{bunzip2,bzcat,bzcmp,bzegrep,bzfgrep,bzless}".
Files: 
 6d4f54c8a9301413b1496f049a2fa43e 586 utils standard bzip2_1.0.2-3.dsc
 bd7d1d2e874f8845bd84c424ed8665aa 9739 utils standard bzip2_1.0.2-3.diff.gz
 17aa417d74a27caa83fb05799b533066 38068 libs optional libbz2-1.0_1.0.2-3_i386.deb
 0f14cd36dd6ff0dbe02af2f183f76b14 30226 devel optional libbz2-dev_1.0.2-3_i386.deb
 ceead98290db9ef06d83cebca403fb9d 229792 utils optional bzip2_1.0.2-3_i386.deb

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