Missing dependency to zip and tar packages

[Jej]

Binary package hint: torrentflux

The Torrentflux software requires the zip or tar packages to download an archive of achieved downloads. If zip/tar is not installed nothing happens when an archive is requested, and Torrentflux does not complain nor tests the presence of zip/tar on the system.

Zip and tar should be at least suggested packages, but better if they are a dependency.

Jej.

[Maurizio Moriconi (bugman)]

Attached debdiff should fix this issue. Thank you :).

[Maurizio Moriconi (bugman)]

Correct debdiff! :-)

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

tar package is present in almost all Ubuntu boxes since it depends on ubuntu-minimal.
*ubuntu-desktop metapackages depends on zip, so it is highly probable that such package is installed.
Is it still worth adding them to Recommends or Suggest?

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

You can't depend on either of those packages being installed, so the explicit depends/suggests are required.

[Steve Kowalik (stevenk)]

This package doesn't install due to MySQL fun.

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu)]

Steve,

Check bug 102970