Hi. How does lintian (or I) see if a man page is compressed with the --best option?
Right now it seems that there is an error somewhere. Let me explain: when
packaging greed, lintian reported that the man page was not compressed with
the --best option. Ok, I've decompressed it and compressed again with this
switch, and it gave the same error. What the $%&#?
However, if I do this 'gzip -dc greed.1.gz | gzip -9 > greed.1.gz' lintian
does not report any error, and the compressed file is 8 bytes shorter
(AFAICT, this happens because this way the name of the file is nor recorded
in the compressed file). Also, if I decompress the file, and leave it up to
debhelper to compress the file, lintian reports no error, and the file is
the same size as the original one (the one that lintian complained before).
Can somebody explain or give any suggestion as to what is happening?
I've attached this three files to this post:
-rw-r--r-- 1 digito users 1091 May 1 21:38 greed-pipe.1.gz
-rw------- 1 digito users 2205 Jan 20 18:31 greed-uncomp.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 digito users 1099 Apr 25 23:45 greed.1.gz
greed.1.gz - Original file: lintian complains about this file
greed-pipe.1.gz - Obtained with gzip -dc greed.1.gz | gzip -9 > greed-pipe.1.gz
lintian clean
greed-uncomp.1 - Decompressed file: lintian clean
FWIW:
-==============-==============-============================================
ii lintian 1.11.2 Debian package checker
ii gzip 1.2.4-33 The GNU compression utility.
ii debhelper 2.0.86 helper programs for debian/rules
Does anybody know what's going on?
Thanks.
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Pedro Guerreiro UIN: 48533103
Universidade do Algarve (EST) - Campus da Penha - 8000 Faro - PORTUGAL
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greed.1.gz
Description: Binary data
greed-pipe.1.gz
Description: Binary data
'\"
'\" greed 1
'\"
.TH greed 1 "" greed "\fBG\fRet and \fBR\fResume \fBE\fRlite \fBED\fRition"
.BS
'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
.SH NAME
greed \- Lets you get and resume files.
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBgreed [-sn] [-o{0..1}] [URL0 URL1..URLN]
.BE
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
Greed lets you download and resume files from web and FTP sites.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \fB-?\fR
Brings up quick help
.TP
.BR \fB-z\fR
Sends a bug report to me
.TP
.BR \fB-t\fR
Tests the file if it is a valid archive after the download is finished
.TP
.BR \fB-s\fR
Prints the file downloaded to STDOUT
.TP
.BR \fB-r || -rURL\fR
Turns off the http referrer and changes the referrer to URL,
respectively
.TP
.BR \fB-o{0..9}\fR
0..9 is the level of output GREED prints
.TP
.BR \fB-n\fR
Downloads the newest version of GREED
.TP
.BR \fB-mADDRESS\fR
Sends an e-mail to ADDRESS every time greed downloads a file (-t MUST
be used)
.TP
.BR \fB-l#\fR
Sets the level of recursion (how many directories down greed should go
on an FTP site)
.TP
.BR \fB-i\fR
Reads URLs from Standard Input
.TP
.BR \fB-gfilename.grx\fR
Loads a .grx file (Windows GetRight), parses it, and downloads the
files specified within
.TP
.BR \fB-f\fR
Disables reading URLs from greed.in
.TP
.BR \fB-d#\fR
Tells greed to download X files at a time. If no number is specified,
it assumes 2 at a time.
.TP
.BR \fB-cURL\rR
Changes the %##'s in a URL to characters... should old be used for
URL's that don't work correctly, or have %##'s in them ;)
.TP
.BR \fB-b\fR
Sends GREED into background download mode.
.SH COOL TIPS
.TP
\fBgreed -i < files.to.download\fR
Lets you download all the files in files.to.download
.TP
\fBgreed -d -b http://foo.bar/file.zip http://ab:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/kl/mno.p\fR
Drops greed into the background and downloads the 2 URLS
simultaineously!
.TP
\fBgreed -b -t [EMAIL PROTECTED] -l9999 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/\fR
Sends e-mails on each successful download and downloads
ftp.cdrom.com... and I mean all .5 terrabytes :) Give it a try ;)
.TP
\fBgreed www.freshmeat.net...freshmeat.index.html\fR
"..." saves the URL retrieved from www.freshmeat.net to
freshmeat.index.html
.SH KEYWORDS
resume download ftp www
