Package: pristine-tar
Version: 0.18
Followup-For: Bug #506627

I've attached a tarball of gz, a cut-down version of gzip I created
which should prove suitable for incorporation into pristine-tar.  It
removes various options including decompression and file support, and
adds options to set the timestamp and original filename.

Together with the timestamp option for zgz in bug 507110, and perhaps
some work to incorporate gz into zgz (handling zgz's --gnu option
without exec'ing another program), this would allow pristine-gz to avoid
depending on GNU gzip (addressing 506627), avoid temporary files, and
address bugs 506626 and 506412.

Eventually, gz could potentially become a library like zlib, and
pristine-gz could use it and zlib in-process to test alternatives
block-by-block in parallel.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pristine-tar depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  perl-modules           5.10.0-18         Core Perl modules
ii  xdelta                 1.1.3-8           A diff utility which works with bi
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages pristine-tar recommends:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-1    high-quality block-sorting file co
pn  pbzip2                        <none>     (no description available)

pristine-tar suggests no packages.

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