feature request: options to explicitly set original filename and timestamp

[Bdale Garbee]

Hi.

One of the users of my Debian packaging of gzip filed the following
feature request in our bug tracking system, which I'm passing along for
your consideration.

Bdale

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> Bug#506798: gzip: Please add options to explicitly set original	filename and timestamp
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> Date: 
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> Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:05:35 -0800
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> Package: gzip
> Version: 1.3.12-6
> Severity: wishlist
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> gzip can save the original filename and timestamp into a gzip file.
> Right now, it always either omits those (with -n or a pipe) or saves the
> filename and timestamp of the input file.  Please consider adding
> options to explicitly set the original filename and timestamp,
> overriding those obtained from the input file.  This would make it
> easier for programs like pristine-gz to precisely recreate a gzip file,
> without needing to first copy a file to the original name and set its
> timestamp with utime.  In particular, this would make it possible to
> use gzip on a pipe and still set the filename and timestamp.
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> - Josh Triplett
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> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
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> Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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> Versions of packages gzip depends on:
> ii  debianutils                   2.30       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
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> gzip recommends no packages.
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> Versions of packages gzip suggests:
> ii  less                          418-1      Pager program similar to more
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> -- no debconf information
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