Re: "musl" gzip-compressed tarballs are decompressed if using newest wegt release

["Jens Schleusener" <Jens.Schleusener@t-online.de>]

On Wed, 1 Nov 2017, Rich Felker wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 11:19:30AM +0100, Jens Schleusener wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> not a real "musl" software problem but just an observation of a
>> changed behaviour of "musl" tarball downloads with the newest "wegt"
>> release (1.19.2): The tarballs are saved now decompressed but
>> contains the original extension (.tar.gz). Although if the extension
>> would be .tar it seems at least to me an undesired behaviour.
>>
>> Reason seems a new "wget" feature, here some extracted lines taken
>> from the ChangeLog
>>
>>  2017-08-04
>>  Add gzip Content-Encoding decompression
>>  (gethttp): Decompress files with gzip Content-Encoding
>>
>> in combination with the HTTP header the www.musl-libc.org server delivers:
>>
>>  Content-Type: application/x-tar
>>  Content-Encoding: gzip
>>
>> Solutions/workarounds may be on the server side delivering of a HTTP
>> header like
>>
>>  Content-Type: application/x-gzip
>>  (or Content-Type: application/octet-stream)
>>
>> or on the client side the use of the new "wget" option
>>
>>  --compression=none
>
> IMO this is both a bug in the server and a major regression in wget,
> since lots of servers have this bug. I'll look at fixing it on my side
> but I think it should be reported to wget and reverted since this is
> going to break a *huge* number of build scripts that download tarballs
> from affected servers.

Thanks for the more clear statement (I agree). If not already done by 
another person I will send an accoding mail to the "bug-wget" list.

Jens