Bug#291694: Linux-bug#20070118T2238: bloat -- comments on behavior

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

Package: bloat
Version: 1.5
Status: 
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I'm considering packaging bloat, but after a test run, I got following
notices. You could use only standard programs:

  bzip2 -d      (instead of bunzip2)
  gzip -d       (instead of gunzip)
  arj x         (instead of unarj)
  zoo x         (instead of unzoo)

The checks below would then be "bzip2 not found" etc. unrar is fine,
because rar is not free under Linux, but unrar is.

The utility could also support extracting multitude of other formats
(forgize if some are already supported; I didn't check):

  *.7z
  *.ace
  *.cpio
  *.gpg
  *.lzma
  *.lzop
  *.pax
  *.pgp
  *.rz  (rzip)
  *.tar.*
  *.zip

Thanks,
Jari

    ./bloat --check

    bunzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
    sh: /usr/bin/bunzip2: not found
    BLOAT: *WARNING* - bunzip2 could not be found.
    BLOAT: Find bunzip2 at <http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/>.

    gunzip: stdin: not in gzip format
    sh: /usr/bin/gunzip: not found
    BLOAT: *WARNING* - gzip could not be found.
    BLOAT: Find gzip at <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>.
    BLOAT: *WARNING* - LHA could not be found.
    BLOAT: Find LHA at <http://www.infor.kanazawa-it.ac.jp/~ishii/lhaunix/>.
    BLOAT: *WARNING* - MSExpand could not be found.
    BLOAT: Find MSExpand at <ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/mhi/mscompress/>.
    BLOAT: *WARNING* - umodpack could not be found.
    BLOAT: Find umodpack at <http://umodpack.sourceforge.net/>.
    BLOAT: *WARNING* - unarj could not be found.
    BLOAT: Find unarj at <ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/compress/>.
    BLOAT: *WARNING* - unrar could not be found.
    BLOAT: Find unrar at <http://www.rarlabs.com/download.htm>.
    BLOAT: *WARNING* - unzoo could not be found.
    BLOAT: Find unzoo at <http://archives.math.utk.edu/software/multi-platform/gap/util/unzoo.c>.
    BLOAT: *WARNING* - uz2unpack could not be found.
    BLOAT: Find uz2unpack at <http://bloat.sourceforge.net/downloads/source/uz2unpack.c>.

-- System Information
Release: 2.6.19-7-
Kernel: 
Locale: LC_ALL=C

-- Other package information
Info-Pkg-devel-tools: gcc 4.1.2, make 3.81
Info-Pkg-lang: perl 5.8.8, python 2.5

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