On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Bdale Garbee wrote:

On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 23:37 +0100, Reuben Thomas wrote:

I suggest that you stop shipping zless.

I'm not inclined to elide it from the Debian package as long as it
remains part of the upstream gzip distribution.  If you haven't already
done so, I would encourage you to

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I suspect that upstream will be less happy to do this as they have to cope with users using older versions of less. What I'm suggesting is really an improvement of Debian, not of upstream. But you're right that it would be nice for upstream eventually to remove it.

If you think that zless should be retained, then please mention
lessfile/lesspipe in zless(1).

I would be happy to.  Do you want to suggest some appropriate text?
Bonus points (and faster implementation) if you send me a diff against
the man page source in the current Debian gzip source package...  ;-)

Sure, I'll work that up.

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