Paul Eggert wrote:
So zutils' solution for dealing with gzip 1.4 and earlier is to overwrite any
non-renamed gzip-only script.
It sounds like that solution isn't working well in practice.
Perhaps it should rename them to gz* instead? That would
give a hint to Debian etc. as to the preferred names.
But how can zutils' "make install" know that the zcat it is about to
rename is from gzip instead of from a previous install of zutils?
Moreover, I don't think distros would like a package that renames files
from other packages.
And certainly the best hint we can give to Debian etc. is to rename the
scripts in gzip itself.
