Bug#896916: patch

2022-06-15 Thread Matt Barry
tags -1 + patch thanks Salsa PR 27 - implements the strategy Marc describes above.

Bug#896916:

2022-06-10 Thread Matt Barry
On Fri, 2022-06-10 at 12:13 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:58:28PM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > > (TIL: the reverse of --auto-compress is on by default; 'tar [tx]f' > > will > > automatically determine the right algorithm.) > > And -THAt- cannot be disabled, see #1012571. Yea

Bug#896916:

2022-06-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:58:28PM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > (TIL: the reverse of --auto-compress is on by default; 'tar [tx]f' will > automatically determine the right algorithm.) And -THAt- cannot be disabled, see #1012571. Greetings Marc -- --

Bug#896916:

2022-06-09 Thread Matt Barry
On Thu, 2022-06-09 at 19:57 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > I'd recommend the following: > > - invoke tar --create --auto-compress --file /tmp/foo.tar.suffix >   --directory / usr/sbin/deluser > - if exit code 127 (compressor known, but not installed): >   - print diagnostic >   - set suffix to ".gz

Bug#896916:

2022-06-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 11:53:20AM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > On Wed, 2022-06-08 at 11:59 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 12:34:14AM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > > > tags -1 + confirmed patch > > > thanks > > > > How about zstd and the other hip compressors? > > Heh. I was thi

Bug#896916:

2022-06-09 Thread Matt Barry
On Wed, 2022-06-08 at 11:59 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 12:34:14AM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > > tags -1 + confirmed patch > > thanks > > How about zstd and the other hip compressors? Heh. I was thinking about whether to bother with this one. A couple of factors: * adding

Bug#896916:

2022-06-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 12:34:14AM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > tags -1 + confirmed patch > thanks How about zstd and the other hip compressors? Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Ma

Bug#896916:

2022-06-07 Thread Matt Barry
tags -1 + confirmed patch thanks

Bug#896916: adduser: Please support xz compression in --backup

2018-04-25 Thread Marc Haber
Hi Christoph, thanks for the time you took to write this bug report. On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:20:51PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > the tarball created by deluser's --backup option supports the gzip and > bzip2 compressions only. In general, the xz compression provides much > better compressi

Bug#896916: adduser: Please support xz compression in --backup

2018-04-25 Thread Christoph Biedl
Package: adduser Version: 3.117 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the tarball created by deluser's --backup option supports the gzip and bzip2 compressions only. In general, the xz compression provides much better compression rates, at the price of significant longer compression time though. Th