Paul Wise wrote...
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote:
>
> > I'm not keen on extending regular expressions like
> >
> > \.(gz|bz2|lzma|xz)$
> >
> > that I have in many places again and again.
>
> That sort of hard-coding should stop,
Understandable and desirable, but perhaps it's just me: Quite often I
find myself in the situation where I have to poke things on a much
lower level than I'm comfortable with. Because the tools and/or libraries
are just painfully slow or don't even exist at all. There still might be
something in devscripts - where so many things are hidden I wasn't even
surprised to find the Amber Chamber - but at some point it seems easier
to hack something together instead of looking around whether there's
something available for the job.
> if you see it somewhere please
> switch to using apt, either via the apt libraries or via apt-helper
> cat-file.
How would that help me in the situation as above?
(
The correct recommendation was to use
Dpkg::Compression::compression_get_file_extension_regex
)
Christoph
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