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Re: ITP: gzrt -- gzip recovery toolkit



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Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 19:35 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> 
>> Please install cpio 2.5 or higher to facilitate recovery from
>> damaged gzipped tarballs.
> 
> I will drop the version from the description and add cpio to the 
> suggests.

Which is "stronger"?

> I added the suggestion to the description because I guess that
> .tar.gz will be the most common type of file being recovered and
> because suggests/recommends do not tell humans exactly how/why
> cpio is useful to install alongside gzrt.

I've always thought that it would be useful if the maintainer would
give some blur as to why package snagglefrob recommends pussywillow.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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