[Bug 523309] [NEW] pigz should be able to replace gzip

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: pigz

Although pigz claims to be a complete replacement of gzip, it can't be
used like that on a normal Ubuntu system without a lot of hackery. The
reason is that the normal gzip is a dependency of lots of packages, so
it can't be easily removed.

Ideally there should be a package (say, pigz-replacement) that depends
on pigz, and which replaces gzip, such that its installation removes
gzip but satisfies all dependencies on it. This would only add a symlink
from gzip to pigz, or something like that.

(Though since gzip is by default installed in /bin and pigz in /usr/bin,
there might be a bit more to it than that.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 17 18:18:26 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pigz 2.1.5-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: pigz
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

** Affects: pigz (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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