Bug#571060: xz-utils: give xzdec and lzmadec their own package
Package: xz-utils
Version: 4.999.9beta+20100212-1
Severity: wishlist
Guillem Jover wrote:
> Also what's
> the point of shipping the xzdec and lzmadec tools in the main package?
> It seems they would make sense as part of another package as tiny
> decompressors-only, but no in addition to the main tools as those
> already provide the whole functionality?
Indeed.
xzdec and lzmadec are meant mostly for copying to small media with
lots of xz- or lzma-compressed files (for distribution). They don’t
belong in the xz-utils package, so let’s move them.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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