[Bug 14446] New: gzip: Please add --rsyncable support

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=14446

            Bug ID: 14446
           Summary: gzip: Please add --rsyncable support
           Product: Busybox
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Other
          Assignee: unassigned at busybox.net
          Reporter: guillem at debian.org
                CC: busybox-cvs at busybox.net
  Target Milestone: ---

This option started as an out of tree patch which at least Debian carried for a
long time before it got merged upstream in GNU gzip 1.7.

For a while the dpkg perl modules (used for the package building machinery)
used the --rsyncable only conditionally whenever the system was Debian based.
But I removed that given that GNU gzip 1.7 has been around for some time now.

And then I got a report from Alpine Linux which seems to be using busybox, and
was now failing.

It would be nice to have this option implemented which helps with generating
artifacts that can be more easily rsync'ed (and thus is potentially easier on
mirrors), I'd also appreciate not having to look for a way to support the
different implementations while not having to run something like «gzip --help»
at run-time whenever the perl module is first loaded which might incur a too
heavy cost.

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