brp-compress will uncompress and recompress a file when it is unnecessary. a patch will be attached in the first bug update which eliminates this behavior.
Created attachment 9641 [details] eliminate unnecessary gunzip/gzip in brp-compress
Changing component.
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. For RPM issues, please try a current release such as Fedora Core 4; if bugs persist, please open a new issue.