GNU bug report logs - #16876
Zutils vs single compressor utilities

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>

Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:49:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 16876-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 16876-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ant_diaz <at> teleline.es, rob <at> welcomehome.org
Subject: Re: bug#16876: Zutils vs single compressor utilities
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 21:05:28 +0200
Hi Paul,

Am 04.04.2022 um 21:01 schrieb Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>:
> On 2/25/14 11:40, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> On 02/25/2014 01:47 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>>> Shouldn’t the transformation be
>>> applied to all occurrences?
>> Yes, I think it should.
> 
> After eight years I got around to implementing this (since nobody else wanted to :-) and installed the attached. Something like this should appear in the next gzip release.<0001-build-support-program-prefix-etc.patch><0002-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch><0003-maint-update-from-Gnulib.patch>

Thank you very much :-) I am still around to appreciate the updated version in the
next package release!


Best regards

  — Dago

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