Kristian Rosenvold created COMPRESS-290:
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Summary: TarArchiveOutputStream#failForBigNumber could be more
helpful
Key: COMPRESS-290
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-290
Project: Commons Compress
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Kristian Rosenvold
We have now ported all of maven to use commons compress. When a user is running
tar compression, we may sometimes fail because the selected tar format does not
support big numbers.
In this context we'd like to help our users by informing them that there may be
other tar formats than can be more suitable. I would request that this method
throw some specialized subclass of RuntimeException that we can catch to
identify this particular error condition, so we can talk to our users about
their options :)
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