bunzip2 comes by default in Ubuntu

bunzip2: I won't read compressed data from a terminal.
bunzip2: For help, type: `bunzip2 --help'.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 9:31 AM Mark Rotteveel <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 22-03-2020 20:13, Jiří Činčura wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there a reason to keep providing sources in bz2 compression? I did a
> quick comparison with 7z compression:
> > Firebird-3.0.5.33220-0.7z: 8 230 662
> > Firebird-3.0.5.33220-0.tar.bz2: 9 789 316
> >
> > Sure, it's not a huge file either way, but still the improvement is not
> insignificant. And given the sources are expected to be used by experienced
> users/developers, I don't think using 7z is adding any difficulty.
> >
>
> As far as I know, use of tar and bz2 (bzip2) is relatively standard on
> Linux environments, and even the most basic environments usually come
> with the necessary tools to extract them. The same cannot be said for
> 7zip as far as I'm aware.
>
> Mark
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