--- /dev/null
+Source: gzip
+Section: base
+Priority: required
+Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
+Build-Depends: debhelper, automake, autoconf (>= 2.52)
+Standards-Version: 3.5.6.0
+
+Package: gzip
+Architecture: any
+Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Depends: debianutils (>= 1.6)
+Essential: yes
+Description: The GNU compression utility.
+ This is the standard GNU file compression utility, which is also the default
+ compression tool for Debian. It typically operates on files with names
+ ending in '.gz'.
+ .
+ This package can also decompress '.Z' files created with 'compress'.
+