Re: Bug: #582706: tar: Please us xz/unxz instead of lzma

[Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>]

Hi,

I believe this change is wrong and the behaviour change must be reverted.

--lzma should compress files with lzma (or at worst just abort saying it is 
unsupported,) but not with xz.
Both formats are not compatible, xz might be capable of uncompressing lzma 
archives, but lzma can't uncompress xz archives.

I noticed this change while investigating a failed lintian test (CC'ing the ML 
so that others don't spend their time investigating it too.)

Regards,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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