On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:39:41 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
> > * Calling unpack on an unrecognised extension should be fatal,
> > unless --if-compressed is specified. The default src_unpack needs
> > to use this.
> 
> Why?

Currently, if a package does an explicit 'unpack foo.bar', where .bar is
an unsupported archive format, unpack just does nothing. This isn't a
good default behaviour; if a package really wants something to be
ignored silently, it should have to say so.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh