There's a patch so apply it:
check you have this line in /etc/apt/sources.list
deb-src
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
maybe change unstable to testing, depending on your flavour
cd /tmp
<as root>
apt-get build-dep gzip
apt-get source gzip
chown -R user:user gzip-1.3.9 replace by your username
cp -R gzip-1.3.9 gzip-1.3.9.old
</as root>
echo > patch.gzip << EOF
--- gzip-1.3.9.old/doc/gzip.texi 2006-12-08 19:45:37.000000000 +0100
+++ gzip-1.3.9/doc/gzip.texi 2006-12-21 15:04:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -28,14 +28,14 @@
@c Debian install-info (up through at least version 1.9.20) uses only the
@c first dircategory. Put this one first, as it is more useful in practice.
-@dircategory Individual utilities
+@dircategory Utilities
@direntry
-* gzip: (gzip)Invoking gzip. Compress files.
+* Gzip: (gzip). The gzip command for compressing files.
@end direntry
-@dircategory Utilities
+@dircategory Individual utilities
@direntry
-* Gzip: (gzip). The gzip command for compressing files.
+* gzip: (gzip)Invoking gzip. Compress files.
@end direntry
@titlepage
EOF
then
patch -p0 patch.gzip
cd gzip-1.3.9
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
cd ..
as root:
dpkg -i gzip_1.3.9-1_i386.deb
Hope I haven't made too many typo errors :-)
This will get a 1.3.9-1 patched but 1.3.9-2 should arrive in testing soon.
