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