[Pkg-grass-devel] Bug#297731: grass: Accidental deletion of present working directory

[Steve Halasz]

Package: grass
Version: 5.7.0+6.0.0beta2-2
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss

Failure of v.in.e00 can result in deletion of all data in the present working directory. The upstream bug is here:

http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=3016

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages grass depends on:
ii  fftw2 [fftw2-double]  2.1.3-16           Library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  lesstif2              1:0.93.94-11       OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation relea
ii  libc6                 2.3.2.ds1-20       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfreetype6          2.1.7-2.3          FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgdal1              1.2.5-1            Geospatial Data Abstraction Librar
ii  libgrass              5.7.0+6.0.0beta2-2 GRASS GIS development libraries
ii  libice6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5           5.4-4              Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0            1.2.8rel-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libpq3                7.4.7-2            PostgreSQL C client library
ii  libreadline4          4.3-11             GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsm6                4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    X Window System Session Management
ii  libtiff4              3.7.1-3            Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxmu6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    X Window System miscellaneous util
ii  libxt6                4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii  proj                  4.4.9-1            Cartographic projection filter and
ii  tcl8.3                8.3.5-4            Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
ii  tk8.3                 8.3.5-4            Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.3 -
ii  unixodbc              2.2.4-11           ODBC tools libraries
ii  xlibmesa-gl [libgl1]  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii  xlibmesa-glu [libglu1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree
ii  xlibs                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  xterm                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10    X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.2-3          compression library - runtime

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