sharutils: misleading message from uudecode

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

This bug is very old (see http://bugs.debian.org/68928 for details),
but it's still present in sharutils 4.6.1.

Summary: If "foo.uu" is an uuencoded file and "bar" is a directory,

uudecode foo.uu -o bar

gives the following message:

uudecode: bar: foo.uu: Is a directory

which is misleading, as it seems to say that foo.uu is a directory.

This would be the patch for sharutils-4.6.1:

diff -ru sharutils-4.6.1/src/uudecode.c NEW/src/uudecode.c
--- sharutils-4.6.1/src/uudecode.c      2005-11-15 18:03:29.000000000 +0100
+++ NEW/src/uudecode.c  2006-03-12 23:10:20.749667000 +0100
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
 #endif
          ))
     {
-      error (0, errno, "%s: %s", outname, inname);
+      error (0, errno, "%s", outname);
       return 1;
     }
 

If the patch is wrong for whatever reason (for example, if it should
not be applied because the output needs to comply with some POSIX standard),
please let me know.

Thanks.