Bug#506627: pristine-gz: Should not fork gzip to generate GNU gzip files

2008-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
> zgz currently forks gzip to generate GNU gzip files, if given the --gnu > option. Doing so relies on GNU gzip to never change its output. Using > an internal gzip library in zgz would ensure that zgz can always > reproduce files even if GNU gzip changes, and would also remove the need > for zgz

Bug#506627: pristine-gz: Should not fork gzip to generate GNU gzip files

2008-11-22 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: pristine-tar Version: 0.17 Severity: wishlist zgz currently forks gzip to generate GNU gzip files, if given the --gnu option. Doing so relies on GNU gzip to never change its output. Using an internal gzip library in zgz would ensure that zgz can always reproduce files even if GNU gzip c