Control: tags -1 pending On 04.01.2017 05:20, Russell Ault wrote: > Package: xarchiver > Version: 1:0.5.4-1+deb8u1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I tried to use xarchiver to open a .deb file, but was presented with an error > along the lines of 'Can't run the archiver executable: Failed to execute > child process "ar" (No such file or directory)'. > > The "ar" command is provided by the "binutils" package, and installing this > package allowed me to open .deb files using xarchiver. > > Given that xarchiver relies on a command provided by the "binutils" package, > I would have expected that it would be a suggested package for xarchiver.
Thank you for the report. You are right that binutils is required to open *.deb packages. I also think that suggesting the package is reasonable. I'm going to upload a new revision later. Regards, Markus
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