On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:17:37PM +1200, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> get the rgzip package into debian. This patch is 100% stable (read
> it, it is short). The only problem with it is it can only be used in
> 99% of situations, so to avoid unexpected bugs it probably should be
> off by default (e.g. it cannot be used in creating the dictionaries
> used by dict). It can always be used in creating .deb files. When I
> proposed this to the gzip maintainer (Bdale Garbee IIRC) the only
> response I got is that it might go in upstream. Well, Jean Loup is
> rather busy, and hasn't put it in upstream in the last year, so I
> think we shouldn't wait.
gzip (1.3.5-4) unstable; urgency=low
* merge patch from Rusty Russell that adds --rsyncable option to gzip.
This modifies the output stream to allow rsync to transfer updated .gz
files much more effectively. The resulting .gz files should be compatible
with the existing gunzip. The plan is that if this works out well for
Debian, the functionality will be included in a future upstream gzip
release. Closes: #116183, #118118, #134741
-- Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:50:23 -0700
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