Re: Bug#378112: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit

[Martin Wuertele <maxx@debian.org>]

* Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> [2006-07-13 16:48]:

> [Martin Wuertele]
> > > Please install cpio 2.5 or higher to facilitate recovery from
> > > damaged gzipped tarballs.
> >  
> > No need to mension it in the description, that's what dependencies
> > are for.
> 
> Presumably he intends to merely Recommend cpio, in which case it's
> entirely appropriate to explain why in the description.

No need to mension it at all (skipping woody):
cpio |    2.5-1.3 |        stable | source, (...) 
cpio |     2.6-15 |       testing | source, (...)
cpio |     2.6-16 |      unstable | source, (...)

yours Martin
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