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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:04:47 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r316980 - head/contrib/zstd/programs
Message-ID:  <20171116090447.sjwtzrwgyuarh7kv@ivaldir.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAG6CVpWxxUuT13NL%2B0LbEDW3N91i4-imsXUBrv1jiTcihs25KQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201704152015.v3FKFiwZ006836@repo.freebsd.org> <CAG6CVpWxxUuT13NL%2B0LbEDW3N91i4-imsXUBrv1jiTcihs25KQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 07:38:13PM -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> Please revert this change.
>=20
> First, it introduces the POLA-violating behavior that zstdcat deletes
> its source files.  This is not how zcat/bzcat behaves.

This is not a POLA-violating behavior, this is a bug! that I introduced.
>=20
> Second, it introduces a needless behavioral difference between FreeBSD
> zstd and the rest of the world's zstd.  The zstd documentation we ship
> continues to claim that zstd preserves source files by default, yet
> this change makes that documentation exactly backwards.  While we can
> change FreeBSD's documentation to accommodate the change, we can't
> change Google results.
>=20

The difference has been made so that zstd follow by default the same behavi=
our
has gzip/bzip2/xz so it can be a dropped in replacement.

The argument about the documentation is however a good one. Let me do first=
 some
tests to ensure restoring the initial behaviour does not break existing usa=
ge in
base

Best regards,
Bapt

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