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and subject line Bug#122451: fixed in tar 1.18-1
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Package: gzip
Version: 1.2.4-33
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bdale Garbee)
> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 10:07:34 -0700 (MST)
>
> Because the 'compress' program is encumbered, it is not part of
> Debian. The gunzip command can extract a 'compress' archive, but
> gzip cannot create one. We therefore deliver an 'uncompress'
> symlink to gunzip as part of our gzip package, but no 'compress'
> symlink. There is a non-free package called ncompress available for
> Debian systems that provides 'compress', but clearly it would be
> inappropriate for the free tar package to recommend or even suggest
> that package since it is not part of Debian.
This problem is not unique to 'tar', so it seems to me that its
solution should not be specific to 'tar'.
Can't you use something like the following script for 'compress' on
Debian? That way, 'compress -d' will work as tar (and other programs)
expect, even if have only free software installed.
(This would seem to belong to gzip not tar, so I'll also submit this
as a Debian gzip bug, so that the Debian gzip maintainer sees this
suggestion too. :-)
#! /bin/bash
# Emulate "compress -d" with gzip if possible; otherwise, fail.
# Written by Paul Eggert.
use_gzip=0
while getopts :cdfv option
do
case $option in
'd') use_gzip=1;;
'?') use_gzip=0; break;;
esac
done
case $use_gzip in
0) echo >$2 "$0: usage: $0 -d [-cfv] [file ...]"; exit 1;;
esac
exec gzip "$@"
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Source: tar
Source-Version: 1.18-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tar, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
tar_1.18-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.18-1.diff.gz
tar_1.18-1.dsc
to pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.18-1.dsc
tar_1.18-1_i386.deb
to pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.18-1_i386.deb
tar_1.18.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.18.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated tar package)
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Hash: SHA1
Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:52:32 -0600
Source: tar
Binary: tar
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.18-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Changed-By: Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
tar - GNU tar
Closes: 122451 417810 422718 426808 429417
Changes:
tar (1.18-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* new upstream version, closes: #429417, #426808
* include COPYING file containing GPLv3 until base-file is updated
* fix filename of NEWS.Debian so that it actually gets delivered
* patch from Wim De Smet to document --strip in the man page, closes: #417810
* patch from upstream CVS to fix --verify on large files, closes: #422718
* add suggest of ncompress mirroring suggest of bzip2 to enable optional
functionality, closes: #122451
Files:
31d47174d819159e669d2b56f28b862e 569 utils required tar_1.18-1.dsc
6010e8cf505e3ea2ba5c15f04b575b60 2425471 utils required tar_1.18.orig.tar.gz
938f36de0deeefcffc45392abc6cbabb 39543 utils required tar_1.18-1.diff.gz
374affb6d7bce0766c756ab0174c47e7 732478 utils required tar_1.18-1_i386.deb
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