Ben Hutchings wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > Are people who are proposing that we change these programs proposing we > > build a new package with binaries of those same names and use > > alternatives? That Debian fork gzip? Something else? > > I propose that we provide a separate package containing zcat, zless, > etc., remove them from gzip and make gzip depend on the new package. > As for who maintains the new package, no I am not volunteering.
This has been proposed and discussed upstream: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2009-11/threads.html The web mail archive doesn't thread across months. Here are continuing months of discussion: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2010-12/threads.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2011-01/threads.html Bob
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