Hi.
One of the users of my Debian packaging of gzip filed the following
feature request in our bug tracking system, which I'm passing along for
your consideration.
Bdale
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Package: gzip
Version: 1.3.12-6
Severity: wishlist
gzip can save the original filename and timestamp into a gzip file.
Right now, it always either omits those (with -n or a pipe) or saves the
filename and timestamp of the input file. Please consider adding
options to explicitly set the original filename and timestamp,
overriding those obtained from the input file. This would make it
easier for programs like pristine-gz to precisely recreate a gzip file,
without needing to first copy a file to the original name and set its
timestamp with utime. In particular, this would make it possible to
use gzip on a pipe and still set the filename and timestamp.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gzip depends on:
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
gzip recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gzip suggests:
ii less 418-1 Pager program similar to more
-- no debconf information
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