On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:18 +0200, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: > On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > > > Talk to the upstream tar maintainers about ways to make tar detect if > > lbzip2 is available and use it instead of bzip2. > > Please join the conversation under [0], I believe I'm no further qualified > to talk on behalf of Debian. > > In my understanding, the following ideas have emerged until now, listed in > decreasing order of preference of Sergey Poznyakoff, the GNU tar > maintainer (ie. top entry is most preferred): > > [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00008.html > [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00004.html > [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00005.html
As the maintainer of the Debian packaging of tar, I'm ok with Sergey's proposal in [0]. But, sigh, I struggle to refrain from going too far into grumpy old man mode, pining away for the days when we all knew how to, and were willing to, use '|'... and tar was a much simpler beast. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org