to support cases where the gzip header claims that the original input file
had an extension that suggests it was itself already compressed. (Although
it can't really be.) Not doing the same for gzip because -f doesn't cause
it to ignore extensions. See #475778
+pristine-tar (0.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * pristine-gz: Always pass -f to zgz, to support cases where
+ the gzip header claims that the original input file had an extension
+ that suggests it was itself already compressed. (Although it can't really
+ be.) Not doing the same for gzip because -f doesn't cause it to ignore
+ extensions. See #475778
+
+ -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:25:06 -0400
+
pristine-tar (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix POD issues. Closes: #484165
}
# try gzipping with the arguments passed
- doit('zgz', @args, $new);
+ doit('zgz', '-f', @args, $new);
$new .= '.gz';
unless (-e $new) {
die("zgz failed, aborting");