# 2021-10-31 17:12:23.855211 UTC (+0000)
Lzip support for Bitreich releases.
Bitreich is now supporting tar.gz and tar.lz for release files, due to
good arguments for lzip:
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html
Lzip gives us requirements for very far future needs, where integrity of
archives should not fail. We would like to encourage packagers to use
lzip too. See this article on lzip vs. xz:
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
Lzip offers a very nice feature for last resort: lziprecover(1). This
can reconstruct some corrupted archive file found from 10 years ago,
where there is only one left on some hidden ftp server. With xz this
could be impossible.
Open Source is about long-time thinking. We hope everyone appreciates
this.
FOR PACKAGERS: The old .tgz files are left there, but will not be
regenerated. Now we have .tar.gz and .tar.lz. All of them are of course
with some sha512sum file for extra integrity check.
Sincerely yours,
20h
Senior Packaging Manager (SPM)