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bug#52227: gzip bug: gzip -l produces bad ratio


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#52227: gzip bug: gzip -l produces bad ratio
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 15:44:49 -0800
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Thanks for reporting the problem.

This by far the most-commonly reported gzip bug, and I'm thinking we might as well fix it by decompressing the input and counting bytes, much as pigz -lt does. This is slow, but nowadays it seems worth it to reduce confusion. Proposed gzip patch attached. (I have not installed this.)

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