Hi Guillaume, Guillaume Le Vaillant <[email protected]> skribis:
> Currently, when package sources are in a '.tar.lz' archive (e.g. ed, > wget, ddrescue, etc.), the 'lzip' package must be explicitly put into > the 'native-inputs' of the package definition, or building the package > fails. > > Would it be possible to make the 'lzip' package available by default in > the build process, like 'gzip', 'bzip2' and 'xz'? Yes. There’s not a strong incentive because there are relatively few packages distributed as lz files, but we could do that in ‘core-updates’. Thanks, Ludo’.
