- Do you know why Debian has kept this in experimental for almost a
year instead of uploading to unstable already? Are there any discussions
about this or potential worries brought up?

I do not know and I haven't found Debian bug reports about that.

 - How come you are cherry-picking fixes from upstream that are not
included in the Debian uploads? Are the fixes Ubuntu-specific, or are
you including them ahead of Debian?

I cherry-picked 3 commits from upstream that were made after 1.14: one
is needed to drop our patch and two that were obvious fixes that makes
sense to include.

 - Can you run the autopkgtests for at least gzip itself?

Yes, triggered the tests.

 - It would also be nice to identify some packages which use gzip (this
is easier said than done) and run their autopkgtests also. Since this
package is essential, many packages will use it without declaring an
explicit dependency, which is unfortunate for proposed-migration
purposes.

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