Please use gzip "--no-name" flag on ftp.debian.org

I submitted a bug against pseudopackage ftp.debian.org but it seems it got lost somehow. On Saturday, 7 January 2017, Joerg Jaspert > wrote: > On 14536 March 1977, Oren Tirosh wrote: > > The timestamp stored in the gzip file

Re: Please use gzip "--no-name" flag on ftp.debian.org

On 14536 March 1977, Oren Tirosh wrote: > The timestamp stored in the gzip file header results in a non-deterministic > output even when the input is identical. Many files (e.g. under indices/) > [...] > The quick fix is to add "--no-name" to the gzip command (or GZIP=-n to the > environment). A

Re: Please use gzip "--no-name" flag on ftp.debian.org

Hi Oren, > The timestamp stored in the gzip file header results in a non-deterministic > output even when the input is identical. […] Whoops. Can you re-file this email as a bug in the BTS against ftp.debian.org so we can track it? Many thanks. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris

Please use gzip "--no-name" flag on ftp.debian.org

The timestamp stored in the gzip file header results in a non-deterministic output even when the input is identical. Many files (e.g. under indices/) are frequently regenerated with identical contents but their compressed versions end up slightly different. This unnecessarily inflates the number