Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.20 won't extract from .tlz or .tar.lzma files

[Tristan Miller]

Greetings.

On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Tristan Miller wrote:
> > GNU tar 1.20 seems to have no trouble creating lzma-compressed files
> > when specifying the -a option and a filename ending in .tlz or
> > .tar.lzma. However, it doesn't recognize these extensions when
> > extracting (with or without the -a option).
>
> this is documented.  use the --lzma option.
> -mike

Documented, as in it's documented as a bug?  That is, is the next release 
of tar going to recognize .tar.lzma and .tlz as valid suffixes when 
extracting?  If not, what's the rationale for recognizing .tar.bz2, .tbz2, 
tar.gz, .tgz, tar.Z, etc., but not the lzma suffixes?

Regards,
Tristan

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