tar + lbzip2

[ERSEK Laszlo-2]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote:

> Talk to the upstream tar maintainers about ways to make tar detect if
> lbzip2 is available and use it instead of bzip2.

Please join the conversation under [0], I believe I'm no further qualified
to talk on behalf of Debian.

In my understanding, the following ideas have emerged until now, listed in
decreasing order of preference of Sergey Poznyakoff, the GNU tar
maintainer (ie. top entry is most preferred):

[0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00008.html
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00004.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00005.html

Thanks,
lacos

[Bdale Garbee]

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:18 +0200, ERSEK Laszlo wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote:
>
> > Talk to the upstream tar maintainers about ways to make tar detect if
> > lbzip2 is available and use it instead of bzip2.
>
> Please join the conversation under [0], I believe I'm no further qualified
> to talk on behalf of Debian.
>
> In my understanding, the following ideas have emerged until now, listed in
> decreasing order of preference of Sergey Poznyakoff, the GNU tar
> maintainer (ie. top entry is most preferred):
>
> [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00008.html
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00004.html
> [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00005.html

As the maintainer of the Debian packaging of tar, I'm ok with Sergey's
proposal in [0].

But, sigh, I struggle to refrain from going too far into grumpy old man
mode, pining away for the days when we all knew how to, and were willing
to, use '|'... and tar was a much simpler beast.

Bdale

[ERSEK Laszlo-2]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Bdale Garbee wrote:

>> [0] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-tar/2009-10/msg00008.html
>
> As the maintainer of the Debian packaging of tar, I'm ok with Sergey's
> proposal in [0].

Thank you.

As that means /etc/alternatives/bzip2-filter, maybe through
/usr/bin/bzip2-filter first: dear mentors, can you point me to a resource
that describes the alternatives system from a packager's POV? Or should I
just look at packages providing alternatives now?


> But, sigh, I struggle to refrain from going too far into grumpy old man
> mode, pining away for the days when we all knew how to, and were willing
                                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> to, use '|'...
   ^^^^^^^^^^^

Thank you a lot.

lacos