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From 8723e7e91c9f9ddc6dccbd4620e3e574b540db97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 13:12:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] tar: *.tlz now implies lzip, not lzma
Suggested by Antonio Diaz Diaz in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-tar/2026-10/msg00002.html
* src/suffix.c (compression_suffixes): Change tlz from LZMA to LZIP.
---
NEWS | 6 +++++-
doc/tar.texi | 2 +-
src/suffix.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7b05757f..0bfbbe4d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2026-09-30
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2026-10-09
Please send GNU tar bug reports to <[email protected]>
version 1.35.90 (git)
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ option.
Formerly, the behavior was undocumented and differed from one tar
version to the next.
+** The *.tlz extension in a tarball now implies lzip, not lzma.
+ This matches the change made to pkgtools in Slackware 15.0 (2022),
+ after lzma was superseded by xz in 2009.
+
** Support for RTU-style contiguous files has been withdrawn.
RTU’s supplier dropped support for RTU decades ago.
diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi
index 28f20c75..9b668bb3 100644
--- a/doc/tar.texi
+++ b/doc/tar.texi
@@ -10051,8 +10051,8 @@ suffix. The following suffixes are recognized:
@item @samp{.tbz2} @tab @command{bzip2}
@item @samp{.tbz} @tab @command{bzip2}
@item @samp{.lz} @tab @command{lzip}
+@item @samp{.tlz} @tab @command{lzip}
@item @samp{.lzma} @tab @command{lzma}
-@item @samp{.tlz} @tab @command{lzma}
@item @samp{.lzo} @tab @command{lzop}
@item @samp{.xz} @tab @command{xz}
@item @samp{.zst} @tab @command{zstd}
diff --git a/src/suffix.c b/src/suffix.c
index 818f55f3..bd9e7fbe 100644
--- a/src/suffix.c
+++ b/src/suffix.c
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ static struct compression_suffix const compression_suffixes[] = {
{ S(tbz2, BZIP2) },
{ S(tz2, BZIP2) },
{ S(lz, LZIP) },
+ { S(tlz, LZIP) },
{ S(lzma, LZMA) },
- { S(tlz, LZMA) },
{ S(lzo, LZOP) },
{ S(tzo, LZOP) },
{ S(xz, XZ) },
--
2.56.0
