Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com> writes: > severity 561411 wishlist > thanks
Wishlist? >> Gzip should not rely on file suffix, or it sould recognize standard >> *.tgz as a gzip file. > > Couldn't you just as easily feed the .tgz file to gzip on stdin > > gzip < file.tgz | tar > > Forcing gzip to learn file extensions other than the one it natively > creates and consumes doesn't seem particularly useful to me. Given that *.tgz suffix has been there almost forever, so it's quite surprising by almost 2010 gzip can't yet handle it. Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
