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has caused the Debian Bug report #548190,
regarding xz-utils: --force not compatible with gzip and bzip2
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Package: xz-utils
Version: 4.999.8beta-1
Severity: normal
Xz does not implement a very useful feature found in gzip and bzip2 when
using the --force option. This is the relevant bzip2 doc:
bzip2 normally declines to decompress files which don't have the
correct magic header bytes. If forced (-f), however, it will
pass such files through unmodified. This is how GNU gzip
behaves.
As an example of how this could be useful, here is a pipeline that
decompresses stdin be it compressed with gzip or bzip2, and leaves it
untopuched if it is not compressed:
bzip2 -cdfq | gzip -cdfq
However, extending it to also decompress xz fails:
bzip2 -cdfq | xz -cdfq | gzip -cdfq
because xz does not let an unrecognised file pass through.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xz-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii liblzma0 4.999.8beta-1 high compression-ratio compression
xz-utils recommends no packages.
xz-utils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 4.999.9beta-1
Thanks for the report. I believe this bug is fixed in the new xz-utils
prerelease 4.999.9beta+20091002-1, which is due to be installed in the
Debian FTP archive. Please let me know if this is not the case.
Kind regards,
Jonathan
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