Upon running

     sudo zgrep -ri my_oh_so_great_searched_string /home /media

I get several screens of the repeated message

     gzip: stdin: decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored

Could the innocent power user be told which files exactly are complained about?

Gratefully!

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

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 1139558@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> (supplier of updated zutils package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:34:54 +0200
Source: zutils
Architecture: source
Version: 1.17~pre1-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Changed-By: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Closes: 1139558
Changes:
 zutils (1.17~pre1-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * Updating to standards version 4.7.4.
   * Using references in copyright to refer to full license texts.
   * Updating to debhelper 14.
   * Updating homepage field.
   * Merging upstream version 1.17~pre1:
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