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

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:47:09PM +0100, Tom Parker wrote:
> Done and attached :-) The biggest problem is that Tarfile's __init__ method

Thanks a lot!

In the end I mostly adapted my previous patch to use tarfile instead of
using yours directly, mainly because the former patch also included
documentation fixes. The key ingredient is still using tarfile as
implemented in your patch and initially suggested by Cameron.

> 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

Thanks for this nice catch!

Have a look at the git repo and please test as needed.

Cheers.

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