Re: Automake 1.11.2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello all,

Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the Automake 1.11.2 maintenance release.

Three years and three stable releases have passed since a patch (by Jan 
Engelhardt) adding dist-lzip support to Automake was sent to this 
mailing list[1], but Automake 1.11.2 doesn't yet mention lzip anywhere. 
By contrast xz support was added when xz was at an early beta stage.

I know dist-lzip support will be present in Automake 1.12, but given the 
long time between Automake releases and the simplicity of the change I 
hoped to see it in this release. I am beginning to feel like a 
second-class citizen on this.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2008-11/msg00076.html


Regards,
Antonio.