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Package: tar
Version: 1.13.25-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
before installing ncompress:
tpo@petertosh:~/src/projects/mailsync/libs$ tar xZvf imap-2002.RC5.tar.Z
tar (child): compress: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
after installing ncompress:
tpo@petertosh:~/src/projects/mailsync/libs$ tar xZvf imap-2002.RC5.tar.Z
imap-2002.RC5/
imap-2002.RC5/src/
[...etc...]
Please replace:
Suggests: bzip2
by:
Suggests: bzip2, ncompress
Thanks,
*t
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux petertosh 2.4.18 #4 Mon Jul 15 17:37:32 CEST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Modern versions of tar automatically detect the compression form used on
a compressed tar file and call an appropriate decompression program even
if no compression option is specified, including using gzip to unpack
archives created with ncompress. Since there is no longer any need to
specify 'Z' to unpack, I'm inclined to leave the code as-is allowing
use of 'Z' to be considered an explicit request to use ncompress.
Bdale
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