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Stefan Bodewig commented on COMPRESS-290:
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The message already says "field 'FOO' is too big ( > SOME BIG NUMBER)" or
"field 'FOO' is too long ( > 100 bytes )".
If you can think of any way of improving this, any patch is more than welcome.
> TarArchiveOutputStream#failForBigNumber could be more helpful
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> Key: COMPRESS-290
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-290
> Project: Commons Compress
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Kristian Rosenvold
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> 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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