Subject: bug#72772: closed (Re: DEPRECATED)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:36:03 +0000

Your bug report

#72772: DEPRECATED

which was filed against the gzip package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: DEPRECATED
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Fellegi Sándor <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:35:47 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 2024-08-23 you wrote:

> root@INF-DESKTOP:/tmp# GZIP=-1 tar cfz saved.config.tar.gz saved.config
> gzip: warning: GZIP environment variable is deprecated; use an alias or script

Yes, that's the intended and documented behavior. The GZIP environment 
variable can make it hard to write portable scripts, as they have to 
unset GZIP to be safe. The intent is that gzip remove support for that 
variable in a future release.

You can work around the problem by using this shell command instead:

    tar -I'gzip -1' -cf saved.config.tar.gz saved.config

Subject: DEPRECATED
From: Fellegi Sándor <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 09:25:21 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

root@INF-DESKTOP:/tmp# GZIP=-1 tar cfz saved.config.tar.gz saved.config
gzip: warning: GZIP environment variable is deprecated; use an alias or script

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