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Re: lintian is not approving what dh_compress does?



Shaul Karl wrote:
> Script started on Wed Feb  9 03:57:31 2000
> [03:57:31 /tmp]$ file /usr/share/man/man1/tkman.1.gz
> /usr/share/man/man1/tkman.1.gz: GNUzip compressed
> [03:57:46 /tmp]$ gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/tkman.1.gz | gzip -9c | cmp /usr/ 
> share/man/man1/tkman.1.gz -
> /usr/share/man/man1/tkman.1.gz - differ: char 4, line 1
> [03:58:08 /tmp]$ gunzip -c //usr/share/doc/tkman/changelog.gz | gzip -9c | cmp / 
> usr/share/doc/tkman/changelog.gz -
> /usr/share/doc/tkman/changelog.gz - differ: char 4, line 1

Completly worthless. All .gz files contain a timestamp, and so will always
differ.

joey@kite:~>file changelog.gz 
changelog.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, last
modified: Tue Aug 24 19:49:11 1999, max compression, os: Unix
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This file is policy compliant.

-- 
see shy jo


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