Comment 12 for bug 152349

Upstream Debian reports this fixed with further upstream (core gzip) version 1.6 -- thankfully the gzip developers decided to include this directly: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7623.

And indeed in Trusty (actually since Saucy, but I hadn't noticed it) I have this option to keep me happy! :-)