Bug#435556: p7zip-full: 7za should support -sfx

Package: p7zip-full
Version: 4.47~dfsg.1-1
Severity: normal

On Fedora, the p7zip package only includes the 7za binary. It's 7za
binary supports -sfx option, however.

On Debian, currently only 7z supports -sfx, but not 7za. This makes it
difficult to write scripts that work across linux distributions.

Is there a reason why 7za can't generate self-extracting archives in
Debian?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages p7zip-full depends on:
ii libc6 2.6-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

p7zip-full recommends no packages.

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