Package: libarchive-tools Version: 3.6.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Thanks for this, bsdcat fills the niche of generalised zcat much nicer than whatever I'd come up with. However, to evaluate this (and to actually try to consult the bsdcat manual for, for example, "what will it unpack") is much more complicated than it ought to be. The main issue is that SEE ALSO bzcat(1), uncompress(1), xzcat(1), zcat(1), libarchive-formats(5) points to libarchive-formats(5). This file is in libarchive-dev, so you're SOL unless you manage to find that ‒ the procedure for this is obvious to me, but may not be to everyone. If you assume this is a complete list of the formats supported you assume wrong, because zstdcat(1) is missing. This is quite easy to solve IMO: libarchive-formats(5) should live in the libarchive13 package (or a libarchive-doc which is Recommends:ed by libarchive13 for multiarch compat, you get my point), since it's of general usefulness to all users using libarchive-using programs. The second issue is that the SEE ALSO shouldn't point to libarchive-formats(5), since that only describes archive formats, not compression formats. It should either point to libarchive(3) (which for some reason isn't in libarchive-formats(5)'s SEE ALSO), which should also live in libarchive13/libarchive-doc, or libarchive-formats(5) should at least include a version of the The library automatically detects archives compressed with compress(1), bzip2(1), grzip(1), gzip(1), lrzip(1), lz4(1), lzip(1), lzop(1), xz(1), or zstd(1) and decompresses them transparently. Decompression of some formats requires external decompressor utilities. It can similarly detect and decode archives processed with uuencode(1) or which have an rpm(1) header. sentence. Thanks, наб -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libarchive-tools depends on: ii libarchive13 3.6.2-1 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u3 libarchive-tools recommends no packages. libarchive-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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