Package: tar Version: 1.16-2 I suggest that bzip2 should be made a dependency of tar, and not just a suggested package as it is today. The rationale is that the -j flag of tar will not work unless bzip2 is installed, and thus tar is not functionally complete unless bzip2 is installed.
A user who is making sure that all necessary tools required to run a certain script is installed, may not pay close enough attention to every tool's command line switches and thus discover only at a later time that the script fails. (Yes, this happened to me. ;) ) $ tar cjf package.tar.bz2 file tar: bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now Cheers, Johan Hovold
