Re: [PATCH] {maint} dist: obsolote support for lzma (superseded by xz)

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 12/31/2011 05:51 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Hello Stefano,
> 
> Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>> The lzma utilities are today superseded by the xz utilities;
>
(Technically, I didn't write that; I just copied and pasted it ;-)

> Please, could it be possible to stop spreading the false idea that xz is 
> somehow
> the only succesor to lzma(_alone)? They came from different authors (Ville
> Koskinen, Lasse Collin) and do not share a single line of code.
> 
> $ lzma -h
> 
> lzma 4.32.7 Copyright (C) 2005 Ville Koskinen
> Based on LZMA SDK 4.32 Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Igor Pavlov
>   [...]
> 
> $ xz -h
>   [...]
> Report bugs to <address@hidden> (in English or Finnish).
> XZ Utils home page: <http://tukaani.org/xz/>
> 
> (As you can see, xz does not even display a proper copyright notice).
> 
> Given that lzip "supersedes"[1] lzma in the creation of compressed
> tarballs as much as xz does, I propose to replace this:
> 
> +  - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
> +    deprecated in favor of `xz', and will be removed the next major
> +    Automake release (1.12).
> 
> with this:
> 
> +  - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
> +    deprecated, and will be removed in the next major Automake release
> +    (1.12).
>
I'd rather still report a suggested lzma "successor" here (and in the
new warning as well); we could maybe name both lzip and xz?

So, what about the attached, amended patch?

Regards,
  Stefano

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