Package: libarchive-tools Version: 3.6.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Thanks for this, bsdcat fills the niche of generalised zcat much nicer
than whatever I'd come up with. However, to evaluate this
(and to actually try to consult the bsdcat manual for,
for example, "what will it unpack")
is much more complicated than it ought to be.
The main issue is that
SEE ALSO
bzcat(1), uncompress(1), xzcat(1), zcat(1), libarchive-formats(5)
points to libarchive-formats(5). This file is in libarchive-dev,
so you're SOL unless you manage to find that ‒ the procedure for this is
obvious to me, but may not be to everyone.
If you assume this is a complete list of the formats supported
you assume wrong, because zstdcat(1) is missing.
This is quite easy to solve IMO: libarchive-formats(5)
should live in the libarchive13 package
(or a libarchive-doc which is Recommends:ed by libarchive13
for multiarch compat, you get my point),
since it's of general usefulness to all users using libarchive-using programs.
The second issue is that the SEE ALSO shouldn't point to
libarchive-formats(5), since that only describes archive formats,
not compression formats.
It should either point to libarchive(3)
(which for some reason isn't in libarchive-formats(5)'s SEE ALSO),
which should also live in libarchive13/libarchive-doc,
or libarchive-formats(5) should at least include a version of the
The library automatically detects archives compressed with
compress(1), bzip2(1), grzip(1), gzip(1), lrzip(1), lz4(1), lzip(1),
lzop(1), xz(1), or zstd(1) and decompresses them transparently.
Decompression of some formats requires external decompressor
utilities. It can similarly detect and decode archives processed with
uuencode(1) or which have an rpm(1) header.
sentence.
Thanks,
наб
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