On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 22:55 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> LZIP is the new stable lzma compression utility > Pardon, but what is your legitimation to claim lzip to be > "the new stable lzma compression utility"? > > No doubt, it is "yet one another lzma" compression utility. > >> >> ( http://freshmeat.net/p/lzip/ ) with magic bytes and checksum. > > IMO, rpm should not adopt lzip support, unless lzip has proven to be a > functional and viable tool. > > See also: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2008-11/msg00076.html > > FWIW: I share Bob F's perspective. One lesson the mess about the > original lzma has tought, is to be more reluctant on adoption of such > compression tools.
Wrt compressors for use in rpm payloads, absolutely agreed. Build-time support for uncompressing patches + tarballs for whatever formats is quite different issue and not harmful, but I see little point in having support for a format that barely exists in the wild (AFAICT). Otherwise we should add LHA, ARJ and all the other myriads of known (un)compressors too... - Panu - _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint