On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 08:26:59 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 00:57:03 +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > > For python < 3.3, the unxz utility from the xz-utils package is used to > > decompress the member which is then fed into the python tarfile module as > > would > > be done for gz or bz2 members. This is crude but works fine. Perhaps python- > > debian and python3-debian (until python 3.3 at least) should Recommend xz- > > utils as a result. Perhaps better error handling around the subprocess > > would > > be advisable for the absence of unxz(1) on the system. > > I think this should really be fixed for wheezy, as there's an > increasing number of .xz compressed binary packages in the archive > already, not doing so will mean python-debian is not usable there. > Not true, python-debian has functionality that doesn't need to look at debs at all.
Cheers, Julien
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