Re: Please add lzip support in the repository

[Thomas Pircher <tehpeh-debian@tty1.net>]

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/