Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio

[Pavel Raiskup]

On Wednesday, April 24, 2013 10:58:10 PM Paul Eggert wrote:
> I think I'd rather have tar assume the gzip exit-status
> convention, and depart from that only for bzip2 and lzip
> (which don't use the convention).  That's a bit simpler
> and is more likely to match some random future compressor.

Should I fix that patch then?  This will probably bring
incompatibilities into dealing with user-defined scripts passed by
--use-compress-program (until that change, tar was accepted non-zero
exit value as an error).  Don't really know how much we should care
about this..

Pavel