On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:31:12 +0200, Jorgen Grahn <[email protected]> wrote: > I remember the time when gzip got --rsyncable support, but it > wasn't documented in the man page. That was fixed after a while. > But now when I looked at the info page, I see that it's still > missing there! > > Perhaps other things have drifted out of sync, too. I don't normally > read info pages, but for Gnu tools there's always a feeling they > might have neglected the man page in favor of the info page.
Upstream has never merged the --rsyncable patch, I continue to have to carry it around in the Debian source package. If you're interested in producing a patch for the info page sources, I'll be happy to apply it. Otherwise I may not get to this for a while. Bdale
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