Bug#462859: Pinging on python-debian support for tar.bz2 archives

[Tom Parker]

2008/9/9 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at debian.org>

> Unfortunately not, thus far I haven't been able to try out the solution
> (4) mentioned in the bug log to, which looks like the most likely to be
> successful.
>
> If you want to help, feel free to try it out and provide a patch. If you
> can't do that, even only verifying whether all the methods of the
> file-like interface we use are supported by tarfile would help.
>

Done and attached :-) The biggest problem is that Tarfile's __init__ method
doesn't actually allow for "r:bz2" opening (who knows why... and it's not
recommended in general for use by the Python 2.5.1 docs I have locally), but
if you call Tarfile.open() instead, then that does and it returns a new
Tarfile object. Right now I'm just fixing the tgz() method so it does the
right thing when it has a .bz2 instead, but you may wish to rename this
method as well....

Tom Parker
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