[wipe] invalid command line options behaviour

[Patryk "LeadMan" Benderz]

1)
patben@esp-patben-lin:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

2)
patben@esp-patben-lin:~$ apt-cache policy wipe
wipe:
  Zainstalowana: 0.21-9
  Kandydująca: 0.21-9
  Tabela wersji:
 *** 0.21-9 0
        500 http://pl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3)
When running:
patben@esp-patben-lin:~$ wipe -rci -Q 1 /media/F82C22132C21CE06/pagefile.sys
according to man page, option -Q (capital) should set number of passes to 1.

4)
Instead file is wiped more then 23 times (still running while writing this). As a side note I can report that option -q (small) works fine wiping file 4 times as written in man page.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: wipe 0.21-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 24 10:38:47 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/wipe
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=pl_PL:en
SourcePackage: wipe
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-27 (28 days ago)

[Eriberto (eriberto)]

Hi,

The -Q option must be in conjunction with -q. This is explicity in manpage:

 -q (quick wipe)
     If this option is used, wipe will only make (by default) 4 passes on each file, writing random data. See option -Q

 -Q <number-of-passes>
     Sets the number of passes for quick wiping. Default is 4.

The command error also says:

# wipe -Q 1 1
Invocation error (-h for help): option -Q useless without -q

However, I will make it a bit more clean in manpage.

Regards,

Eriberto

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wipe - 0.22-4

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wipe (0.22-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
      - Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.8.
      - Improved the long description.
      - Updated the Vcs-* fields to use https instead of http and git.
  * debian/copyright: updated packaging copyright years.
  * debian/patches/:
      - 001_fix-manpages.diff: removed. No longer necessary escape hyphens in
        manpages.
      - 002-add-hardening: renamed to 10_add-hardening.patch.
      - 20_fix-manpage.patch:
          ~ Added to fix a spelling error and remove invalid macro SP.
          ~ Fix a wrong example. Thanks to (No Name)
            <email address hidden>. (Closes: #411971)
          ~ Make clearer the -Q option use. (LP: #801472)
          ~ Make the man page clear about number of default passes. For this,
            thanks to Runa Sandvik <email address hidden> (Closes: #544774)
      - 30_fix-spelling-binary.patch: added to fix a spelling error in final
        binary.
      - 40-fix_warnings.patch: added to fix some GCC warnings.
      - 50_hide-filenames.patch: added to really delete filenames of deleted
        files. Thanks to Timo Boettcher <<email address hidden>,
        <email address hidden>> (Closes: #726388)
      - 60_fix-warnings.patch: added to fix some GCC warnings in previous
        patch.
  * debian/README.source: added to tell about new upstream's repository.
  * debian/rules:
      - Added specific rules to build to GNU/kFreeBSD.
      - Removed unnecessary lines because the current upstream Makefile already
        provides all necessary flags.
  * debian/watch: bumped to version 4.

 -- Joao Eriberto Mota Filho <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Sep 2016 14:44:36 -0300