Bug#4057: compress package install additional zcat

[Michael Meskes <meskes@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>]

Yves Arrouye writes:
> Hmmm. This is somewhat more complex than it looks like. I cannot just
> remove /usr/bin/zcat because it is intimately linked with compress.
> If you say 'man compress' for example you'll get the synopsis for zcat
> too and if the corresponding zcat would not be provided then I think
> users can be confused.

I've found nothing in your zcat that GNU zcat can't do.

> My opinion is that gzip should *not* provide /bin/zcat but rather
> /bin/gzcat (and the same for other z* tools). The /bin/zcat program
> is just *not* zcat, it also handles gzip files which the original
> zcat program cannot do. I think that we should have /bin/gzcat (or

But that means it can do more than the original one. So why not using this
name?

Michael

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