[debbugs-tracker] bug#32305: closed (mingw vs do_chown in gzip)

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regarding mingw vs do_chown in gzip
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: mingw vs do_chown in gzip Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:31:06 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1

Bdale Garbee wrote:

I'm (finally) working on updating the gzip in Debian to something newer
than 1.6, which caused me to stumble over the addition of the do_chown
function in gzip.c.  That's because I need to build both native Debian
and Windows binary packages, the latter in support of a portion of the
Debian installer system that has something to do with Windows.

The problem is that mingw doesn't provide uid_t or gid_t definitions,
perhaps just because there isn't really an equivalent ownership
construct in Windows?

Yes, that must be it. I installed the attached into gzip master on Savannah; does it fix things for you?

0001-gzip-port-better-to-mingw.patch
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