On 12/23/2011 05:04 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Hello all, > Hi Antonio.
> Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> We are pleased to announce the Automake 1.11.2 maintenance release. > > Three years and three stable releases have passed since a patch (by Jan > Engelhardt) > adding dist-lzip support to Automake was sent to this mailing list[1], but > Automake > 1.11.2 doesn't yet mention lzip anywhere. > Do you care to backport that patch to the `maint' branch of automake? That way, it will be possible to add support for lzip to the next maintenance release 1.11.3 (which I bet will be released before 1.12). > By contrast xz support was added when xz was at an early beta stage. > > I know dist-lzip support will be present in Automake 1.12, but given the long > time between Automake releases and the simplicity of the change I hoped to see > it in this release. I am beginning to feel like a second-class citizen on > this. > Honestly, I wasn't aware that lzip support was not already present in maint. That's moslty my bad, but you have to partly share the blame here, since I had released a beta version *ten days* before the 1.11.2 release -- if you had voiced your objection before, we could have lzip support in 1.11.2 now. Anyway, no use in crying overt spilt milk; and as I said before, patches welcome. Regards, Stefano
