Re: [Lzip-bug] lzip archive package comes 'zipped' but requires something to un-lzip it ???

[Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado]

On 07/05/14 08:39, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 07/05/2014 12:33 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> > If it is simpler for you, sure I'll release them in gzip and lzip
> > format. I only hope a pre-release of lzip does not end in a stable
> > Debian release. ;-)
>
> for me, it doesn't matter, i've got lzip installed :)
>
> but i think for the general audience, it would valuable to have all
> releases, regardless if pre- or stable, be available with both lzip and
> gzip (for legacy reasons) compressions.
>
> re debian-stable: we'll see :) so far from my point of view, i've been
> happy with the pre-releases and i'd personally would prefer them over
> any previous stable release.

A good idea would be to add lzip support to the debian tools.

I'm the maintainer of lzip on OpenBSD. I use the lzipped tarballs 
because with that, I'm sure that lzip works on every platform supported 
by OpenBSD. Each bulk build of the OpenBSD packages is a test for lunzip 
on weird architectures :)