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Error in --help-text |
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Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:43:50 +0200 (CEST) |
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Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) |
Dear maintainer,
there is an error in the text issued by gzexe when invoked with
gzexe --help
It says "Rename each FILE with a compressed version of itself" ...
It should say "Replace each FILE with a compressed version of itself" ...
In fact it should also explain better what the program does. Something
like
"Replace each FILE (assumed to be executable) by a compressed
version of itself while retaining executability".
As it stands there is no indication that the result of an executable is
still executable, which is of course the whole point.
Version info:
gzexe (gzip) 1.7
Hope this helps,
Mark Roberts
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Re: bug#28514: Error in --help-text |
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Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:46:41 -0700 |
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 |
Thanks for the bug report. I installed the attached patches, which
should fix the problem. The last patch is the actual fix; the other
patches are merely to bring gzip up to speed (it's been a while since
anyone built bleeding-edge gzip, apparently).
0001-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch
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0002-maint-update-.gitignore-for-recent-Gnulib.patch
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0003-maint-port-to-GCC-7.2.patch
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0004-maint-copy-bootstrap-from-Gnulib.patch
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0005-maint-prefer-HTTPS-to-HTTP-FTP-in-URLs.patch
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0006-misc-update-version-copyright.patch
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0007-gzexe-improve-usage-diagnostic.patch
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