On Mon, 20 May 2019 22:44:53 +0200 Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Matías Fonzo wrote: > > I am pleased to announce the release of qi 1.1. > > Congratulations on the new release. >
Thanks, Antonio! > > > Changes in version 1.1: > > > > * Default external tool for uncompressing files based > > on .tar.lz archives has been changed in the unpack() function from > > tarlz(1) to lzip(1) in combination with tar(1). This is because > > some files could have been produced using a header format that > > differs from the default format used by tarlz(1), e.g. the GNU > > format (by GNU tar). > > This seems the best way to deal with the fact that GNU tar and other > tars do not create POSIX archives by default. > Yes. This increases the chances that an external tarball source can be decompressed, for example a source that has been packaged using the (default) GNU tar format and compressed with lzip. Note: this does not affect the (binary) packages produced by Qi that are based on the POSIX format (thanks to tarlz). For when the next version?. ;-)
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