Package: file-roller Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Squashfs4 is a compressed archive format that can EITHER be mounted as a loopback read-only filesystem OR it can be treated as an archive like tgz or zip -- using "unsquashfs foo.sq" to extract some/all files, or with -ls / -ll to list the contents.
I've been cheerfully using squashfs with CLI tools for some time, but some of my managers are more comfortable with a GUI archiver -- I think file-roller is what they use. It would be great if file-roller could create and open squashfs archives. PS: a little background - squashfs3 is an older variant that you can probably ignore. squashfs4 initially used zlib from compression; newer tools/kernels also support LZMA2 and LZO. AFAIK squashfs-tools does not provide a library to link to, just mksquashfs and unsquashfs. Also note those two are very picky about the order of their arguments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
