Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > As maintainer of gzip for Debian, I do not agree that having gzip
> > fork a bzip2 when it sees a bzip2 magic number is a good idea. If
> > we want to support multiple compression engines, I believe this
> > should be handled in dpkg-source.
>
> I agree entirely. If one wants to do a 'file x', and chose gzip or
> bzip2 based on those results, fine, but gzip shouldn't be expected to
> have knowledge of some arbitrary set of formats.
I cannnot quite understand that. gunzip already supports five or six
different formats, so why not add another one? gunzip *is* designed to
support multiple compression engines.
Falk
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