please add LZMA/XZ/Lzip support

Bug #801588 reported by Jelmer Vernooij
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pristine-tar (Debian)
Fix Released
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pristine-tar (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Imported from Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/499489:

Package: pristine-tar
Version: 0.17
Severity: wishlist

According to manual page:

   LIMITATIONS
       Only .tar, .tar.gz, and .tar.bz2 files are currently supported.

SUGGESTION

Please consider adding LZMA support that is very good for big archive
tarballs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pristine-tar depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl-modules 5.10.0-13 Core Perl modules
ii xdelta 1.1.3-8 A diff utility which works with bi
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages pristine-tar recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii pbzip2 1.0.2-0 parallel bzip2 implementation

pristine-tar suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
Changed in pristine-tar (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in pristine-tar (Debian):
importance: Undecided → Unknown
Changed in pristine-tar (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Matthias Klumpp (ximion) wrote :

This bug has been fixed in version 1.18 of pristine-tar. Ubuntu has version 1.20, so this should be fixed in Ubuntu Precise too :)

Changed in pristine-tar (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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