In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2025-09/msg00262.html Collin
Funk wrote:
I don't think we need to keep gzip, unless someone voices a need for it
for bootstrapping.
I think it would help simplify compiler bootstrap processes[1] that
coreutils joined other tools like binutils, gawk, guile, and make in
releasing lzip tarballs because clzip (the C version of lzip) can be
compiled with bootstrap compilers like tcc (TinyCC), and can therefore be
used early in the compiler bootstrap process.
[1]
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/
Or there is a desire to create archives using only GNU programs.
I'm all for making lzip and tarlz GNU programs. :-)
Best regards,
Antonio.
