Chris Lawrence wrote:
> If you don't screw with the timestamps and use default compression,
> (gunzip x.gz; gzip x) is idempotent. So would be:
>
> (gunzip upstream.orig.tar.gz; bzip2 upstream.orig.tar)
> [intervening operations]
> (bunzip2 upstream.orig.tar.bz2; gzip upstream.orig.tar)
>
> unless your upstream author did something really stupid (yep, I said
> stupid) like add a compression level option.
Excuse me, but I use `gzip --best`
Didn't think that made me stupid.
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