Re: bin/57368: NetBSD gzip is not byte for byte compatible with GNU gzip

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/57368; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/57368: NetBSD gzip is not byte for byte compatible with GNU
 gzip
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:58:34 +0100

 On 19/04/2023 12:35, Martin Husemann wrote:
 >   This is not a property the gzip file format supports - the format does
 >   not mandate any particular algorithm to construct the huffman tree (nor the
 >   exact meaning of the various compression levels of the default).
 >   
 >   So overall I wouldn't consider this a bug.
 
 Could you call it a feature request then?
 It certainly took me by surprise, took some time to work out the cause of the 
 checksum difference and is certainly worthwhile to document in the man page.
 
 Roy