Josh Triplett wrote: > 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.
I'd like to hold off on adding a new program (especially one with a name like gz!), and jump right to adding gz into zgz. Would you like to take that on? I've merged your other changes, BTW. -- see shy jo
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