Re: whither --rsyncable?

[Jim Meyering]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Bdale Garbee wrote:
>> I was disappointed to see that gzip 1.6 apparently still doesn't include
>> a merge of the --rsyncable support the Debian package has included since
>> 13 Feb 2003.
>>
>> Has someone determined that this definitely will *not* be merged, or is
>> a decade just not long enough yet for it to pop to the top of the
>> pending queue?  ;-)
>
> Is this a complete patch?
> I.e., if it includes a NEWS entry, --help and documentation updates,
> along with a new unit test or two, it's likely to be a shoe-in.
> Can you provide a complete patch?

Also, if at all possible, please attribute an "Author", if you can,
or at least say in the commit log something like "based on a patch
by XXX", e.g., and include a debbug/bugzilla/etc. URL reference.