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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 05 septembre 2010 à 10:08 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit : 
> > 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.

AFAICT it can only use it for .xz archives, not for lzma ones.

> > > - 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?

The alternatives are used if they are available, and for some of them it
means more features are available (I haven’t checked exactly which
ones).

Cheers,
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