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bug#38256: Packages sources in '.tar.lz' archives
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From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
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Subject: |
bug#38256: Packages sources in '.tar.lz' archives |
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Date: |
Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:37:20 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Guillaume,
Guillaume Le Vaillant <address@hidden> skribis:
> Currently, when package sources are in a '.tar.lz' archive (e.g. ed,
> wget, ddrescue, etc.), the 'lzip' package must be explicitly put into
> the 'native-inputs' of the package definition, or building the package
> fails.
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> Would it be possible to make the 'lzip' package available by default in
> the build process, like 'gzip', 'bzip2' and 'xz'?
Yes. There’s not a strong incentive because there are relatively few
packages distributed as lz files, but we could do that in
‘core-updates’.
Thanks,
Ludo’.