Z compression not yet supported (Was: mk-origtargz)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 15.05.2014, 11:42 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> However, if I try
> 
> $ LANG=C tar -taf liboptimization-java_0.1.orig.tar.xz 
> Blas_f77.java
> Fmin.java
> Fmin_methods.java
> Fzero.java
> Fzero_methods.java
> Lmder_fcn.java
> Lmdif_fcn.java
> Minpack_f77.java
> README
> Uncmin_f77.java
> tar: Skipping to next header
> disclaimer
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> 
> Something seems to be broken which is not the case when I try simply
> `LANG=C tar -taf src.tar.Z`.  This problem leads to the following
> error when trying to build the package:
 
Did you compare the output of
$ xzcat liboptimization-java_0.1.orig.tar.xz 
and
$ zcat src.tar.Z

I’d either expect them to be identical (in which case tar should not
complain) or different (in which case mk-origtargz has a bug).

Greetings,
Joachim


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