Debian Bug report logs - #343575
zdiff should ideally inspect file contents to see if decompression is necessary

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Don Armstrong <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: zdiff should ideally inspect file contents to see if decompression is necessary

Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:41:26 -0800

Package: gzip
Severity: wishlist
Version: 1.3.5-12

It would be ideal if zdiff would either inspect file contents using
file if it is available or have some sort of option to override the
results of checking the file extension.

[This would be useful, because I find myself often comparing things
like gnumeric files which are compressed but don't normally carry a
.gz or .tgz or .tar.gz extension.]


Don Armstrong

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stéphane Aulery <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: patch

Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 14:06:44 +0100

tags 343575 patch
tags 630111 patch
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Hello,

Here is a small patch for this bug.

Regards,

-- 
Stéphane Aulery

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From: Stéphane Aulery <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: patch

Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 14:07:44 +0100

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tags 343575 patch
tags 630111 patch
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Hello,

Here is a small patch for this bug.

Regards,

-- 
Stéphane Aulery

[bugfix_630111.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

Message #22 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bdale Garbee <[email protected]>

To: Stéphane Aulery <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: patch breaks build checks

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:19:43 -0600

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Thanks for the patch you provided in early Feb.  Unfortunately, applying
this patch causes 'make check' to fail like so:

  make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/gzip-1.4/build'
    GEN    gzip.doc.gz
  { test '..' != . || ./zdiff --__bindir . -c gzip.doc.gz; }
  ./zdiff --__bindir . -c ../gzip.doc ../gzip.doc
  ./zdiff --__bindir . ../gzip.doc gzip.doc.gz
  ./zdiff --__bindir . -c - ../gzip.doc <gzip.doc.gz
  *** -	Fri Apr 13 05:13:31 2012
  --- ../gzip.doc	Fri Apr 13 05:13:02 2012
  ***************
  *** 0 ****
  --- 1,372 ----
  + GZIP(1)							       GZIP(1)
  + 
  + NAME
  +        gzip, gunzip, zcat - compress or expand files

And so on.

Want to try again?

Bdale

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Message #32 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guinness <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: zdiff should ideally inspect file contents to see if decompression is necessary

Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:40:55 +0100

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Control: tags -1 -patch
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Need to rework the patch.

-- 
Guinness

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