[Lzip-bug] Packaging lzip

[Bram Neijt]

Dear Antonio,

After reading about lzip in this months Linux Format and seeing that it
was not yet packaged, I decided to try packaging it for the Ubuntu
Universe repository.

You can keep track of the progress via the launchpad packaging bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/300772
or reading the comments and checking out the current result at REVU:
http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=lzip

With lzma already packaged and other compression algorithms already in
the packaging queue (lrzip for example) the actual package may not make
it into the Ubuntu Universe repository. If that is the case, I'd be
happy to share the resulting debian packages through my personal
packaging archive.

In light of this LZMA already being in the repositories, it might be
good to create a table which compares lzip to the other compression
algorithms. lrzip for instance shows off better compression then LZMA
but it doesn't mention it's speed. A table containing the compression
ratio, compression speed and decompression speed might be good to post
on the lzip website.

Greetings and good luck,
  Bram Neijt