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Re: Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide



> Also many GNU projects do not release lzip tarballs, but do release bzip
> or xz ones and there are very few that exclusively release lzip tarballs.
> If that's the equivalent of bazaar being the official GNU VCS that most
> of the GNU projects do not use, well

This is often the case when few "enlightened" people tell all the
others what they skould prefer by now.

I have found another opinion by a Gentoo dev that might shed some light
on the topic, or maybe not.

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2014/02/22/a-few-words-on-lzip
-compressor/

 - Fabian

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