bug#32903: [PATCH] Display uncompressed size when testing

2018-11-04 Thread Sergey Ponomarev
> Alongside the OK message, print the real size in bytes; this provides a way to view the stored file's size when it's larger than 4GiB. You can get a real size by `gzip --list` command. Why to show the size in `gzip --test` output? Almost all other compressors (lzop, xz, bzip2, etc0 just shows th

bug#32903: [PATCH] Display uncompressed size when testing

2018-11-04 Thread Sergey Ponomarev
Thanks for explanation, >From user point of view it would be better not to enclose the size into brackets: it will be easier to parse the output by other tools. On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 21:39, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi Sergey, > > On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 14:49:50 +0200, Sergey Ponoma

bug#33070: Underlying Gzip library

2019-09-07 Thread Sergey Ponomarev
> There does exist another implementation of gzip > called “pigz” which in fact uses zlib for compression and decompression. Maybe it anyway makes a sense to migrate gzip to zlib? For example OpenWrt which is Linux distro for very limited routers has both gzip and zlib. So if gzip can reuse zlib t

bug#37336: Allow to decompress files without .gz suffix and add an option to specify output file name on decompression

2019-09-07 Thread Sergey Ponomarev
a patch from me? Regards, Sergey Ponomarev