Bug#775233: unalz: -p updates mtime

[Jakub Wilk]

Package: unalz
Version: 0.65-4+b1

unalz -p updates modification times of files on disk (if they exists):

$ touch limerick

$ stat limerick | grep ^Mod
Modify: 2015-01-12 22:01:04.882932125 +0100

$ unalz -p limerick.alz > /dev/null

$ stat limerick | grep ^Mod
Modify: 2015-01-12 21:34:48.000000000 +0100





-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
 APT prefers unstable
 APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages unalz depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0  1.0.6-7+b2
ii  libc6       2.19-13
ii  libgcc1     1:4.9.2-10
ii  libstdc++6  4.9.2-10
ii  zlib1g      1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

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Jakub Wilk

This is surprising and undocumented. I'd expect that with the -p option, no files on disk would be touched.

limerick.alz
Description: Binary data