@sneak apt-get install pigz
@alrs why are things like gzip/bzip2 installed or even available when they are so plainly defective
@sneak There are a lot of shell and even Perl and Python scripts out there that were written against gzip.
@alrs yes so why is the existing broken one being shipped and not a replacement with the same name?
@sneak "broken" sounds a bit strong. I imagine that pigz doesn't create byte-for-byte bug-for-bug identical output to gzip. That would be a pretty massive project with a multi-architecture QA effort to rival that of sqlite.
@alrs if i am compressing a file and it takes 32x longer to compress than it's supposed to, that's broken.
@sneak I see your viewpoint. To me the path out of this is "we've got Go now, so let's accept that anything non-trivial written in shell, Python, Ruby, Perl or Node is tech-debt toxic-waste." Instead of "ZOMG BROKEN" I see the situation as "this janky stuff is going to be around a long time, and as long as we're deleting shell scripts faster than we write them, that's fine."
@sneak a version of this converstion is shaking out on the Debian lists right now. https://lwn.net/Articles/846405/