On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Westley Martínez <anikom15@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't think my previous email went through. I apologize and disregard > if it did. Here is the original message: > > ----- Forwarded message from Westley Martínez <anikom15@xxxxxxxxx> ----- > > Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 00:44:46 -0700 > From: Westley Martínez <anikom15@xxxxxxxxx> > To: arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: odd compress command > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > Hello, on my [Arch] system the compress program is actually a wrapper to > gzip. This has caused a test to fail for Python > <http://bugs.python.org/issue11340>. The bug is quite old but it is > still relevant and I've been working on fixing it. I'd like to ask if > anyone knows exactly why Arch's compress program outputs .gz files and > not .Z files. It's a symlink /bin/compress -> gzip. I assume the gzip binary is intended to behave as `compress` when it's called as `compress`. Yet it fails to do so, i.e. it's a bug in gzip, IMO. > I honestly could not find any information concerning its > history or its rationale, and I come to this mailing-list as a last > resort. Likewise, I think it would be appropriate to adopt the true > compress program or not include a compress command at all, because, as > you can see, problems have been created. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- >
