Package: tar Version: 1.34+dfsg-1 Severity: minor File: /bin/tar Hi,
I have foo.tar.xz which file(1) correctly flags as "XZ compressed data" tar --extract --file foo.tar.xz happily decompresses this. This is already a surprise. I'd have expected to be able to use -no-auto-compress to turn this automatism off if I want tar to fail on the tar.xz file. This doesnt work as well, the tar.xz is happily unpacked anyway. The user story behind this weird issue is that tar --create --auto-compress --file foo.tar.baz will happily write an uncompressed tar file to foo.tar.baz if it doesn't recognize the suffix, and I'd like to be able to diagnose this to fall back to foo.tar.gz to get at least a bit of compession in that case. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.18.2-zgws1 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libacl1 2.3.1-1 ii libc6 2.33-7 ii libselinux1 3.4-1 tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.8-5 pn ncompress <none> pn tar-doc <none> pn tar-scripts <none> ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2.1 -- no debconf information
