On 2017-07-03 11:41, Maria Bisen wrote:
3- Somebody else, also from Debian, asks the upstream above to bring
back
the xz tarball
4- As a result, lzip is almost never used alone (without xz), and
Debian can
justify forever the lack of lzip support
Hi Maria,
in the example you mentioned upstream have added xz to the set of
archives they distribute their source in. Currently[1] the GNU Octave
source code is being distributed as .gz, lz and .xz tarballs.
I don't get it; what exactly is the problem when upstream distributes
their source in multiple formats, including .xz and .lz, among others?
Thomas
[1] https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/
