Subject: Re: bug#32815: Corrective patch for GNU gzip

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:11:35 -0700

On 9/24/18 2:55 AM, Manfred Morgner wrote:
> It does not the expected action. It does not compress and it does not rename. But it Prints out a Text to inform about the Situation. I think this Situation needs a warning Return Code or the warning text should Go. Otherwise it‘s a bit inconsistent, isn’t it?

It depends on what the user expects. It's not clear to me that this is a 
bug.

Gzip formerly behaved the way you are asking for, but this was changed 
in gzip 1.3.6 (2006). Although I don't recall why, most likely this was 
in response to another bug report where someone complained that gzip was 
warning about a situation even though everything was already OK from 
their point of view.

It all depends on what the user expects, and what the most common use 
cases are. What's your use case and why is the current behavior a 
problem for you?