Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: > On the other hand, zcat and zless are nothing but thin shell wrappers > over "gzip -cd", without loads of extra functionality lesspipe has. I'd > turn them into a C program linked against zlib (priority: required), > liblzma2 (priority: required) and libbz2 (priority: important, might be > dlopened instead).
One angle of this discussion is confusing me: zcat and zless are upstream binaries that are part of a package that we build from upstream source. That upstream is gzip; presumably the gzip maintainers aren't particularly interested in adding build dependencies on other compression formats. (I wouldn't be if I were them; it seems a bit outside their bailiwick.) Are people who are proposing that we change these programs proposing we build a new package with binaries of those same names and use alternatives? That Debian fork gzip? Something else? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqk5xn19....@windlord.stanford.edu
