* Thomas Goirand: > As a friend puts it: > > "This is a fundamental problem/defect with xz. This (and a lot of other > such defects, e.g. non-robustness of xz archives that easily lead to > file corruption etc)
Corruption breaks signatures, making the file unusable, so that's not really an issue for dpkg. > are the reason that there is lzip (and which is why > gnu.org has, on a technical basis, decided that lzip is official > gzip-successor for gnu software releases when they come in tarballs). The only GNU projects currently releasing .lz tarballs are gmp, ddrescue, rcs, autoconf-archive, guile-sdl, ocrad, moe, gawk, ed, gettext. Several more projects have stopped providing .lz files, but did so in the past. Reading <http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html>, I see no commitment towards convergence. In fact, the web page gives the impression that further compression algorithms might be added in the future, breaking your use case (“a much more elaborated way of finding coding sequences of minimum size than the one currently used by lzip could be developed”). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87h9p0ihu0....@mid.deneb.enyo.de
