Bug#595117: file-roller: Unpacking tools scattered in Depends, Recommends, and Suggests

[Josh Triplett]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 04:16:03PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 01 septembre 2010 à 00:13 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit :
> > file-roller seems to have various unpacking tools scattered through
> > Depends, Recommends, and Suggests with no obvious pattern.
> > 
> > file-roller:
> > 
> > - Depends on tar (Essential anyway) and p7zip-full (a
> >   relatively uncommon format, unless file-roller uses its support for
> >   other archive formats),
> 
> Yes, p7zip is used for 7z, zip, rar, arj and cab, which is why it’s a
> reasonable default.

OK, that makes sense; thanks!

> > - Recommends lzma (obsolete in favor of xz-utils) and rpm2cpio (by no
> >   means a more common thing to extract than most of the Suggests), and
> 
> rpm2cpio is for reading RPM files, which are much more common that
> whatever is in the suggests (and not handled by p7zip).
> 
> I’m moving lzma to Suggests, thanks for the notice.

Ideally file-roller would use xz-utils instead of lzma, but that seems
like a separate bug report.

> > - Suggests all other unpackers (including things like zip/unzip which
> >   seem common enough to include in Recommends or Depends if *anything*
> >   qualifies).
> 
> See above for why zip/unzip is only here.

Makes sense.  But if you use p7zip for those formats, then why suggest
the alternatives at all?

- Josh Triplett