Improve error message when a decompressor is not available, to indicate which package has been built with bzip today. Closes: #644719

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/functions b/functions
index 44a071d..2cafedb 100644
--- a/functions
+++ b/functions
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ extract_ar_deb_data () {
 	if type $cat_cmd >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 		ar -p "$pkg" "$tarball" | $cat_cmd | tar -xf -
 	else
-		error 1 UNPACKCMDUNVL "The $cat_cmd command is not available on the system"
+		error 1 UNPACKCMDUNVL "Extracting %s requires the %s command, which is not available" "$pkg" "$cat_cmd"
 	fi
 }