bugs in package gzip -- GNU bug report logs

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Patch Available (2 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (17 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Will Not Fix (3 bugs)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Patch Available (1 bug)
Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (16 bugs)
Resolved bugs -- Normal bugs (3 bugs)

#77724 [n|+| ] [gzip] [PATCH] maint: include errno.h
Reported by: Andreas Stieger <Andreas.Stieger <at> gmx.de>; Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 07:01:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Filed 126 days ago; Modified 126 days ago;
#77815 [n|+| ] [gzip] [PATCH 1/1] initialize env_argc & env_argv
Reported by: Christian Hesse <mail <at> eworm.de>; Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:44:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Filed 123 days ago; Modified 122 days ago;

#16472 [n| | ] [gzip] PD: gzip - tree overflow protection algorithm doubt/suggestion
Reported by: "Krzysztof Rybak" <krzysztofrybak6 <at> wp.pl>; Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:52:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 11 years and 214 days ago; Modified 11 years and 214 days ago;
#16951 [n| |=] [gzip] zless error under ulimit -v
Reported by: Jaroslaw Weglinski <jaroslaw.weglinski <at> atendesoftware.pl>; Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:47:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 18427; Filed 11 years and 165 days ago; Modified 3 years and 137 days ago;
#21022 [n| | ] [gzip] see how much cloudflare's zlib-improving techniques can help gzip
Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>; Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 23:32:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 10 years and 40 days ago; Modified 10 years and 39 days ago;
#62695 [n| | ] [gzip] Gzip error
Reported by: Mary-Anne Freckleton <M.Freckleton <at> derby.ac.uk>; Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 10:25:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 132 days ago; Modified 2 years and 131 days ago;
#62888 [n| | ] [gzip] [bug] zless will not work when LESSSECURE is set
Reported by: Marcus Müller <marcus_gnu <at> hostalia.de>; Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 122 days ago; Modified 2 years and 122 days ago;
#66112 [n| | ] [gzip] question about gzip timing
Reported by: "Azami, Noushin" <noushin.azami <at> txstate.edu>; Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 01:41:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 331 days ago; Modified 1 year and 331 days ago;
#67227 [n| | ] [gzip] Suggestion of enhancement | Option dedicated to inform archive properties
Reported by: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 273 days ago; Modified 1 year and 273 days ago;
#68380 [n| | ] [gzip] gzip --rsyncable doesn't get rsync speedup
Reported by: Alexander Piotrovski <apiotrovski <at> apstecsystems.com>; Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:31:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 217 days ago; Modified 1 year and 217 days ago;
#69806 [n| | ] [gzip] Exposure of email addresses on this list
Reported by: "Adler, Mark" <madler <at> alumni.caltech.edu>; Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:42:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 154 days ago; Modified 1 year and 154 days ago;
#70861 [n| | ] [gzip] 'pipe-output' test fails on Alpine Linux, macOS, Solaris 11 OmniOS
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 15:38:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 97 days ago; Modified 1 year and 97 days ago;
#71388 [n| | ] [gzip] Makefile is missing a dependency between gzip and stdckdint.h
Reported by: Daniel King <daniel.zidan.king <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 05:06:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 71 days ago; Modified 1 year and 71 days ago;
#72682 [n| | ] [gzip] patch around get_suffix
Reported by: John SETH Thielemann <sthielemann <at> jostaly.com>; Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 07:14:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 363 days ago; Modified 363 days ago;
#74196 [n| | ] [gzip] maint: assume proper behavior of tolower
Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 23:48:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 285 days ago; Modified 277 days ago;
#77640 [n| | ] [gzip] [platform-testers] new snapshot available: gzip-1.13.56-e549
Reported by: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe <at> math.utah.edu>; Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 129 days ago; Modified 126 days ago;
#77641 [n| | ] [gzip] [platform-testers] new snapshot available: gzip-1.13.56-e549
Reported by: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe <at> math.utah.edu>; Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 13:13:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 129 days ago; Modified 129 days ago;
#79087 [n| | ] [gzip] gzip 1.9.7 - z17 Compatibility
Reported by: MATHEW THOMAS <mathew.thomas <at> gm.com>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:59:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 22 days ago; Modified 22 days ago;
#79231 [n| | ] [gzip] sends non-printable characters to the terminal in error message
Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>; Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal;

#39831 [n|+W| ] [gzip] [PATCH] Using crc instructions instead of crc_32_tab in aarch64.
Reported by: Yikun Jiang <yikunkero <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:10:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, wontfix; Filed 5 years and 169 days ago; Modified 3 years and 134 days ago;
#39832 [n|+W| ] [gzip] [PATCH] Optimized the deflate in aarch64
Reported by: Yikun Jiang <yikunkero <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 10:10:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, wontfix; Filed 5 years and 169 days ago; Modified 3 years and 134 days ago;
#41535 [n|+W| ] [gzip] [PATCH] performance optimization for aarch64
Reported by: l00374334 <liqiang64 <at> huawei.com>; Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 05:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch, wontfix; Filed 5 years and 82 days ago; Modified 3 years and 134 days ago;

#19360 [w|+| ] [gzip] Support for .adz=.adf.gz
Reported by: Thue Janus Kristensen <thuejk <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 22:21:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Filed 10 years and 249 days ago; Modified 10 years and 158 days ago;

#15380 [w| | ] [gzip] Bug in gzip.c buffering, and two feature requests
Reported by: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 01:00:04 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 11 years and 338 days ago; Modified 11 years and 337 days ago;
#16471 [w| | ] [gzip] New entropy coding: faster than Huffman, compression rate like arithmetic
Reported by: Jarosław Duda <dudaj <at> purdue.edu>; Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:52:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 11 years and 214 days ago; Modified 10 years and 281 days ago;
#18000 [w| | ] [gzip] tar/gzip recognise ZIP mistake
Reported by: Jonny Grant <jg <at> jguk.org>; Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:07:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 11 years and 38 days ago; Modified 10 years and 281 days ago;
#25207 [w| | ] [gzip] Bug: OPTIONs are the same as for 'grep'.
Reported by: Chris Musinsky <cmusinsky <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:25:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 8 years and 245 days ago; Modified 8 years and 244 days ago;
#25418 [w| | ] [gzip] Proposal to quiet file size modified warning
Reported by: Jens Rantil <jens.rantil <at> tink.se>; Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:27:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 8 years and 218 days ago; Modified 3 years and 137 days ago;
#29241 [w| | ] [gzip] "The file specified to gunzip has not been compressed"
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>; Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:27:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 280 days ago; Modified 7 years and 280 days ago;
#30719 [w| | ] [gzip] Progressively compressing piped input
Reported by: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713 <at> galex-713.eu>; Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 21:20:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 165 days ago; Modified 3 years and 139 days ago;
#33856 [w|N| ] [gzip] PATCH: switch to non-recursive makefile
Reported by: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:04:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: notabug; Filed 6 years and 236 days ago; Modified 6 years and 236 days ago;
#35145 [w| | ] [gzip] additional fields like for comments by gzip
Reported by: Jörg Jenderek <joerg.jen.der.ek <at> gmx.net>; Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2019 15:22:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 135 days ago; Modified 3 years and 140 days ago;
#37336 [w| | ] [gzip] Allow to decompress files without .gz suffix and add an option to specify output file name on decompression
Reported by: Sergey Ponomarev <stokito <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 21:13:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 5 years and 344 days ago; Modified 3 years and 140 days ago;
#42620 [w| | ] [gzip] hard link improvement for gzip (wishlist item)
Reported by: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel <at> aixigo.com>; Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:37:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 5 years and 17 days ago; Modified 5 years and 16 days ago;
#48885 [w| | ] [gzip] /dev/vda1
Reported by: Jeremy <jb <at> jb123.me>; Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 21:58:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 4 years and 71 days ago; Modified 3 years and 140 days ago;
#50097 [w| | ] [gzip] gzip: add "--keep" option to keep original files unchanged
Reported by: Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecrilj <at> stegny.2a.pl>; Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:45:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 3 years and 364 days ago; Modified 3 years and 140 days ago;
#51921 [w| | ] [gzip] Anything like ztail
Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 3 years and 272 days ago; Modified 3 years and 272 days ago;
#73821 [w| | ] [gzip] "gunzip -r -t" stops on first bad file
Reported by: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:58:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 304 days ago; Modified 185 days ago;
#74478 [w| | ] [gzip] Develop a flag to bypass suffix restrictions
Reported by: Shadybay Shadybay <shadybay <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:53:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 266 days ago; Modified 185 days ago;

#61187 [n|F| ] [gzip] continuous integration
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 21:47:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: fixed; Done: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>; Can be archived in 22 days; Filed 2 years and 198 days ago;
#65394 [n|N| ] [gzip] gzip-1.13 released [stable]
Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>; Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:40:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: notabug; Done: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>; Can be archived in 15 days; Filed 1 year and 362 days ago; Modified 13 days ago;
#77685 [n|N| ] [gzip] gzip-1.14 released [stable]
Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>; Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 04:40:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: notabug; Done: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>; Can be archived in 15 days; Filed 128 days ago; Modified 13 days ago;

Status
- 39 Outstanding
- 3 Resolved
Severity
- 25 Normal bugs
- 17 Wishlist items
Classification
- 3 Patch Available
- 33 Unclassified
- 3 Will Not Fix

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GNU bug report logs: bugs in package gzip

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Patch Available (2 bugs)

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Unclassified (17 bugs)

Outstanding bugs -- Normal bugs; Will Not Fix (3 bugs)

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Outstanding bugs -- Wishlist items; Unclassified (16 bugs)

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