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

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Subject: Re: bin/57368: NetBSD gzip is not byte for byte compatible with GNU gzip
From: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
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 thechecksum difference and is certainly worthwhile to document in the man page.

Roy

References:
- Re: bin/57368: NetBSD gzip is not byte for byte compatible with GNU gzip
  - From: Martin Husemann

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