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



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

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@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 13:33:05 +0200

 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.
 
 Martin
 


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