bug#18999: Testsuite summary for gzip 1.6 SunOS 5.10 Sparc

2014-11-10 Thread Jim Meyering
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks, these were bugs in the test cases. They were fixed here: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=a963e3a42d6da62ef6d017f28ded08534ad4c805 > > and here: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=6263972df

bug#19010: FYI: updating gnulib and bootstrap

2014-11-10 Thread Jim Meyering
There have been a few months worth of changes, so I'm updating to the latest with these patches: 0001-gnulib-bootstrap-update-to-latest.patch Description: Binary data 0002-maint-avoid-false-positive-match-in-check-for-double.patch Description: Binary data

bug#18999: Testsuite summary for gzip 1.6 SunOS 5.10 Sparc

2014-11-10 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Jim, > Am 10.11.2014 um 16:42 schrieb Jim Meyering : > Hi Paul, > It's been 17 months since the last gzip release, and there > have been a few bug fixes, so I'm inclined to make a new > release. I'm preparing to update gnulib, bootstrap and NEWS. > Do you know of anything else that should be do

bug#19010: FYI: updating gnulib and bootstrap

2014-11-10 Thread Jim Meyering
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > There have been a few months worth of changes, so > I'm updating to the latest with these patches: FYI, here's another "maint" patch I've just pushed: 0001-maint-enable-more-syntax-checks.patch Description: Binary data

bug#18216: Issue with chmod and chown in gzip.c?

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Eggert
No further comment, so I'm closing this bug report.

bug#17910: Windows version gzip 1.3.12.1 bug report

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Eggert
C:\>gzip -r -fast \\dmz-nas\backup gzip: invalid option - s <-- this is wrong. There is no -s option?? You need to spell it "--fast" (with two hyphens) rather than "-fast". C:\>gzip -l \\dmz-nas\backup gzip: \\dmz-nas\backup: Permission denied<-- This is wrong. Permis

bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Eggert
This looks like an installation problem. 'zless' is a wrapper around 'less', and won't work on platforms that don't have 'less'. There's not much that gzip can do about this, other than have 'zless'-related tests fail (which is what is happening here).

bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6

2014-11-10 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Paul, > Am 10.11.2014 um 19:40 schrieb Paul Eggert : > > This looks like an installation problem. 'zless' is a wrapper around 'less', > and won't work on platforms that don't have 'less'. There's not much that > gzip can do about this, other than have 'zless'-related tests fail (which is >

bug#18999: Testsuite summary for gzip 1.6 SunOS 5.10 Sparc

2014-11-10 Thread dclarke blastwave.org
> On November 10, 2014 at 10:42 AM Jim Meyering > wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Paul Eggert > wrote: > > Thanks, these were bugs in the test cases. They were fixed here: > > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=a963e3a42d6da62ef6d017f28ded08534ad4c805 > >

bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/10/2014 11:03 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: shouldn’t it then be an XFAIL if less is missing? Wouldn't it be better to not install 'zless' if 'less' is missing? Why install a script that doesn't work?

bug#16401: gzip: fix to wording with -v and -k options

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Eggert
Thanks, I installed the attached patch and am marking this as done. >From 6ff80bfd55f6308be56014a3b4f00400d8a35023 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:02:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] gzip: adjust -v output when -k is also specified Problem reported by Eric Benoit in

bug#18999: Testsuite summary for gzip 1.6 SunOS 5.10 Sparc

2014-11-10 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/10/2014 07:42 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: Do you know of anything else that should be done before I make a snapshot? I just now did a bug triage. The remaining normal bugs are: 18427 (actually 16951) is waiting for 'less' to get fixed. No rush. 16876 has been present since the beginning a

bug#16401: gzip: fix to wording with -v and -k options

2014-11-10 Thread Jim Meyering
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > Thanks, I installed the attached patch and am marking this as done. Thanks, Paul. I tweaked NEWS so that it no longer triggers a "make syntax-check" failure.

bug#15546: bug of gzip 1.6

2014-11-10 Thread Dagobert Michelsen
Hi Paul, > Am 10.11.2014 um 20:07 schrieb Paul Eggert : > > On 11/10/2014 11:03 AM, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >> shouldn’t it then be an XFAIL >> if less is missing? > > Wouldn't it be better to not install 'zless' if 'less' is missing? Why > install a script that doesn't work? Of course, if t