#640669 libgfshare-bin: gfsplit /foo/bar/baz doesn't work as expected

Package:
libgfshare-bin
Source:
libgfshare
Description:
utilities for multi-way secret-sharing
Submitter:
"A. N. Other"
Date:
2011-09-06 13:15:14 UTC
Severity:
minor
#640669#5
Date:
2011-09-06 12:19:20 UTC
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If you do

$ cd
$ gfsplit /etc/passwd

gfsplit will attempt to create shares called /etc/passwd.NNN, and
fail, assuming you're not root. This violates the principle of least
surprise; I would expect it to create shares called passwd.NNN in the
current directory (i.e. it should use the basename of the input file
as the output stem, rather than the whole path), in the manner of
split(1).
#640669#10
Date:
2011-09-06 13:12:41 UTC
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tags 640669 + upstream
forwarded 640669 https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/libgfshare/+bug/842654
thanks

I'm not sure which behaviour is right here. I'm not going to diverge from
upstream, but I've forwarded this request to
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/libgfshare/+bug/842654>;
if Daniel agrees with you and changes gfsplit's behaviour, I'll update the
Debian package accordingly.

    S