Re: bzip2 X

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@law.miami.edu> writes:

> Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> writes:
> > As maintainer of gzip for Debian, I do not agree that having gzip
> > fork a bzip2 when it sees a bzip2 magic number is a good idea.  If
> > we want to support multiple compression engines, I believe this
> > should be handled in dpkg-source.
> 
> I agree entirely.  If one wants to do a 'file x', and chose gzip or
> bzip2 based on those results, fine, but gzip shouldn't be expected to
> have knowledge of some arbitrary set of formats.

I cannnot quite understand that. gunzip already supports five or six
different formats, so why not add another one? gunzip *is* designed to 
support multiple compression engines.

	Falk


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