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Bug#686502: pxz produces archives broken for busybox's unxz



On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:22:12PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> This is a grave bug in busybox.  Grave because it causes silent
> data loss - valid (according to the format specs) input is
> decompressed only partially.

The documentation say: "SHOULD support files that have more than one
Stream or Stream padding". Please note the should. So missing support is
no bug on its own, but it should at least check that there is no
trailing garbage.

Bastian

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