Is this only me ? dpkg-source barfs with an error

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

% ls -ld am-utils*              
drwxrwsr-x   16 phil     phil         1024 Jul  7 20:48 am-utils-6.0.7/
-rw-rw-r--    1 phil     phil      1386716 Jul  7 20:48 am-utils_6.0.7.orig.tar.gz
% dpkg-source -b am-utils-6.0.7 
dpkg-source: building am-utils using existing am-utils_6.0.7.orig.tar.gz

gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe
dpkg-source: failure: gzip gave error exit status 1
zsh: 30633 exit 11    dpkg-source -b am-utils-6.0.7
% dpkg -l dpkg-dev gzip libc6
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  dpkg-dev       1.9.6          Package building tools for Debian
ii  gzip           1.2.4-33       The GNU compression utility.
ii  libc6          2.2.3-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone

Ga ? I can't build any packages anymore...

Phil.