Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue tarball formats

[Lars Wendler]

Hello Antonio,

thank you very much for your reply.

Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:

> Hello Lars.
> 
> Lars Wendler wrote:
> > The release of ddrescue-1.17 only has an lzip compressed tarball
> > availabe but older releases were also available as gzip compressed
> > tarballs.
> 
> Yes. I have made a 5 year transition to lzip. Gzip is becoming
> obsolete, so it had to be done someday.
> 
> 
> > As it is common for Gentoo users to compile packages on their Gentoo
> > machines we now have to make sure they have lzip installed just to
> > get ddrescue-1.17 source tarball uncompressed which seems to be a
> > bit of overkill.
> 
> I don't think so. Surely every user of ddrescue would like to know
> about lzip, because lziprecover provides data recovery capabilities
> which nicely complement those of ddrescue[1].
> 
> [1]http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html#Introduction

At the time of my initial email we didn't have lziprecover in our
repository. But I added it to our tree meanwhile.
Still lziprecover is no hard requirement for ddrescue and thus I'd
prefer to have ddresue tarball in some different compressed format
available.

> > So I'd like to kindly request continuation of providing gzip
> > compressed source tarballs. Could that be feasible?
> 
> It is feasible but, what is the point? Lzip is available to Gentoo 
> users, is useful to (some) ddrescue users, and gzip is going to be 
> eventually dropped. Ddrescue is not the only GNU package distributed
> in lzip format[2], nor is the only one not providing gzip tarballs.
> 
> [2] http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html
> "Various compression formats are used on the server: .gz is gzip 
> (http://gnu.org/software/gzip); .bz2 is bzip2 (http://bzip.org); .xz
> is xz (http://tukaani.org/xz); .lz is lzip
> (http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html)"

Would there be a chance of you uploading the tarballs additionally to
the lzip compressed ones in some other format like xz?
Or in case you completely dislike that idea, would you be okay with me
providing xz-compressed tarballs of ddrescue from my Gentoo dev-space?

> Best regards,
> Antonio.

Kind regards
Lars

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