On 01/09/14 16:58, The Wanderer wrote:
> Unless debootstrap relies on the outside source to perform that
> decompression, of course, but in that case I'm not sure what it would
> even mean to say that debootstrap "supports" xz in the first place.
In this case "debootstrap supports xz" means "debootstrap knows that if
the ar file contains *.tar.xz, it should be unpacked using xzcat". (See
debootstrap's source code.)
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