Jim Meyering wrote: > Bdale Garbee wrote: >> I was disappointed to see that gzip 1.6 apparently still doesn't include >> a merge of the --rsyncable support the Debian package has included since >> 13 Feb 2003. >> >> Has someone determined that this definitely will *not* be merged, or is >> a decade just not long enough yet for it to pop to the top of the >> pending queue? ;-) > > Is this a complete patch? > I.e., if it includes a NEWS entry, --help and documentation updates, > along with a new unit test or two, it's likely to be a shoe-in. > Can you provide a complete patch?
Also, if at all possible, please attribute an "Author", if you can, or at least say in the commit log something like "based on a patch by XXX", e.g., and include a debbug/bugzilla/etc. URL reference.
