On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 21:04 +0100, Andreas Radke wrote:
Am Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:35:51 +0100 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>:
You should bug upstream against, perhaps using direct mail to maintainer.
In general, you can post up feature requests but they might be closed with "upstream" as a reason as we can't do much about it. We will not have feature patches in 99% of the cases if it can be helped.
You seem to be able to read my mind? Yes, I'd close it as won't implement. Though it would be really useful it's simply against Arch philosophy as it would add unneeded code to the upstream release.
Depends on what you call unneeded. If I would add support for additional compression formats, I would just rewrite a big piece of the code to use either bsdtar instead of parsing output from tar and unzip. File-roller is very famous for its error messages about .tar.gz files that have been un-gzipped by your browser, but which are stored with the same extension. As tar will complain that it's not a gzip archive, file-roller can't open it... The same will be true for xarchiver.