pbzip2 should be able to replace bzip2
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pbzip2 (Debian) |
New
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Unknown
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pbzip2 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: pbzip2
Although pbzip2 claims to be a complete replacement of bzip2, it can't be used like that on a normal Ubuntu system without a lot of hackery. The reason is that the normal bzip2 is a dependency of lots of packages, so it can't be easily removed.
Ideally there should be a package (say, pbzip2-replacement) that depends on pbzip2, and which replaces bzip2, such that its installation removes bzip2 but satisfies all dependencies on it. This would only add a symlink from bzip2 to pbzip2, or something like that.
Though since bzip2 is by default installed in /bin and pbzip2 in /usr/bin, there might be a bit more to it than that. Also, the alternatives system might be appropriate.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 17 18:24:27 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: pbzip2 1.0.5-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: pbzip2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64
Changed in pbzip2 (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
That latest version of pbzip2 1.1.0 should allow it to be a complete bzip2 replacement if you can figure out the dependency problems: /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ pbzip2/ +bug/538529
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