Re: Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide
On 2015-07-29 00:21:54 +0200, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> A compressed file is like an envelope with a message inside. The objective
> of the decompressor is to extract the message and deliver it intact to the
> user.
The problem is that data could have been appended to a compressed file
(thanks Firefox!), and one wants to detect that and not lose such data,
i.e. after the envelope is not necessarily garbage, it may be important
data.
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