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Asked: May 27, 20262026-05-27T20:51:29+00:00 2026-05-27T20:51:29+00:00

The GZip task in ant works no problem, but is there a way to

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The GZip task in ant works no problem, but is there a way to get it to use maximum compression – the equivalent of gzip -9?

I don’t want to just use the native exec task because then I’ll lose cross platform compatibility.

The reason I ask is because I need to compress the changelog with gzip to include in a debian package (also generated via ant) and unless it uses maximum comrpession lintian spouts out a warning (which I’d obviously like to avoid.)

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    2026-05-27T20:51:30+00:00Added an answer on May 27, 2026 at 8:51 pm

    Why cant you create a small program with this
    http://commons.apache.org/compress/

    try this .. http://bytemycode.com/snippets/snippet/178 for setting compression level feature to GZipOut Stream

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