Re: [Lzip-bug] about lzip..

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Thursday 2008-11-20 18:51, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> > > >Lzip provides a much simpler and reliable implementation. Lzip also
>> > > >provides a simple but safe file format, with magic bytes
>> 
>> "LZIP" I see, but is the magic perhaps a bit longer, without me
>> having to inspect the source?
>
> You only need to read the fine manual, section "File Format". As you can see,
> the file format is extensible:

Oh please excuse my laziness, I was just adding support for lzip
source tarballs to rpm.