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

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-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 12:58:06 +0200

 On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 10:50:00AM +0000, roy%marples.name@localhost wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       NetBSD gzip is not byte for byte compatible with GNU gzip
 
 I don't think that is a useful promise to make.  Are even all GNU gzip
 versions producing the same output? On all operating systems, with all
 zlib-compatible libraries?
 
 > As such it's impossible to sign my github releases using NetBSD's gzip implementation.
 
 What exactly do you want to do?
  Thomas