[Bug-ddrescue] .lz file on ddrescue

[Jimmmac]

Good evening.

Whose idea was it to compress ddrescue with an .lz compression? Just 
FYI, I am a long term Linux user, through RedHat, Ubuntu and now Linux 
Mint (and many years of AIX, HP-UX and Solaris before that). The only 
thing I could see that would unzip this file is file-roller.  For some 
reason this will not install from the Mint software manager.  So I tried 
downloading the package and installing it manually.  I got this 
complicated message that I needed to install some schema's just to get 
the file-roller to install just so that I could get the .lz file 
unzipped to install the package.  If I am having this much trouble, this 
could be a major problem for people trying to get this downloaded and 
installed on anything. Archive manager in Mint doesn't know what to do 
with the file.  Any suggestions would be more than appreciated.  Thanks.

Jim Macdonald
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.