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

[cjwatson@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> wrote:
>> % 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
[...]
>> ii  dpkg-dev       1.9.6          Package building tools for Debian
[...]
>For those interested, it was a collusion between:
>
>  - windowmaker which transmits some SIG_IGN signal dispositions to
>    its children, which it should not do (filed bug #103996).
>
>  - zsh which does not clean all the signals' dispositions on
>    interactive startup, which it should do (filed bug #104001).
>
>It only happened to people running zsh from within a wmaker session.

It was also related to bug #89679, fixed (ill-fatedly) in dpkg-dev
1.9.11.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]