Hi.
On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 06:02 +0200, Mikołaj Izdebski wrote: > Thank you for the report. Making lbzip2 as a bzip2 alternative in > Debian was and still is desired. I will try to make it happen in some > future. Previous lbzip2 maintainer conducted a survey [1] about that, > but it failed to get any attention. I think that should rather go to debian-devel, where developers could comment on whether they think this will cause any problems... > lbzip2 should be fully compatible with bzip2. Incompatibilities, if > any, are treated as bugs and will be fixed upstream. I've had a short glance at the different parallel versions of the well known compressors (pixz, pigz and for bzip2 also pbzip2)... I remember that at least some of them showed already in the manpage that they're not fully compatible (in the sense of program interface) with their non-parallel counterparts. > I consider the additional tools you mentioned (bzexe, bzdiff etc.) as > obsolete. Sure... I'd also prefer it they were dropped in favour of zutils by their respective upstreams. Cheers, Chris.
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