Hello Sergey,
Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
Do you plan to auto-compress/recognize lzip files (.lz)?
No problem. I'll only need some information on how to discern them
(e.g. by file header signature). Do you have any pointers?
I see tar-1.22.90 does not yet mention lzip files anywhere. In case my
last message was lost I send the pointers again.
I see tar-1.22.91 does not yet mention lzip files anywhere.
I am beginning to feel worried because, as Vincent Lefevre told me
recently, "if this isn't fixed before the freeze in (probably) a few
weeks, this would mean that one would wait for several years before
seeing lzip support in GNU tar in Debian/stable".
If the problem is the .tlz suffix, I guess it can remain assigned to
lzma until lzip is more popular than lzma. I suppose this will
eventually happen given that lzma is deprecated and the lzip family of
compressors is now complete.
Best regards,
Antonio.
