#569670 gzip - Please stop usage of gunzip shell-wrapper

Package:
gzip
Source:
gzip
Description:
GNU compression utilities
Submitter:
Bastian Blank
Date:
2010-02-13 10:54:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#569670#5
Date:
2010-02-13 10:52:15 UTC
From:
To:
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