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regarding gzip: Please upstream --rsyncable option
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Source: gzip
Source-Version: 1.3.5-4
Severity: wishlist
Hi!
The gzip program supports a Debian-specific --rsyncable option. Very
unfortunately that option was never upstreamed, and things in Debian
started depending on this option even though it is Debian-specific.
This is one of the portability issues dpkg is facing when used on
non-Debian based systems, which implies it needs to be patched there
or they need to patch their gzip implementation if possible. It has
crossed my mind several times already to just remove the option usage
from dpkg, because I'd rather not used Debian-specific options like
these, but that would create some uproar I fear…
Thanks,
Guillem
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Source: gzip
Version: 1.9-1
The --rsyncable option was added in gzip 1.7. Quoting the NEWS file:
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| * Noteworthy changes in release 1.7 (2016-03-27) [stable]
|
| ** New features
|
| gzip now accepts the --rsyncable option. This option is accepted in
| all modes, but has effect only when compressing: it makes the resulting
| output more amenable to efficient use of rsync. For example, when a
| large input file gets a small change, a gzip --rsyncable image of
| that file will remain largely unchanged, too. Without --rsyncable,
| even a tiny change in the input could result in a totally different
| gzip-compressed output file.
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