Bug#39299: PROPOSAL] permit/require use of bz2 for source packages
Hi,
>>"Chris" == Chris Lawrence <quango@watervalley.net> writes:
Chris> If you don't screw with the timestamps and use default compression,
Chris> (gunzip x.gz; gzip x) is idempotent. So would be:
Ah, but what compression level did the author use? And I have
reports about gzip producing differerent compression levels on
different machines. And I know from personal expoerience that
uncomrepssing and comrpessing something at a later date causes md5sum
mismatches.
manoj
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