[Bug 1022287] Re: negative compression ratio if list a big gzip file

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: gzip (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  negative compression ratio if list a big gzip file

Status in “gzip” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Please notice the uncompressed part and ratio, there should be wrong.
  uncompressed size should be more than 200GiB actually. it should be a
  overflow of integer.

  tommy at tommy-ubuntu-1110:/media/PartBackup/sdb3$ gzip -l sdb3.ntfsclone.img.gz 
           compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
         185808678561          4242664346 -4279.5% sdb3.ntfsclone.img
  tommy at tommy-ubuntu-1110:/media/PartBackup/sdb3$ ls -l sdb3.ntfsclone.img.gz 
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 tommy tommy 185808678561  7月  8 17:04 sdb3.ntfsclone.img.gz

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