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On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:39:41 -0700 |
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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> > * Calling unpack on an unrecognised extension should be fatal, |
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> > unless --if-compressed is specified. The default src_unpack needs |
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> > to use this. |
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> |
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> Why? |
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Currently, if a package does an explicit 'unpack foo.bar', where .bar is |
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an unsupported archive format, unpack just does nothing. This isn't a |
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good default behaviour; if a package really wants something to be |
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ignored silently, it should have to say so. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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