Re: [PATCH] maint: RFC: add lzip tarballs

[Jim Meyering]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> Coreutils picked 'dist-xz' back in 2008 (see commit b52a8860),
> and automake didn't support 'dist-lzip' until 2011 (but forgot
> to mention it in NEWS).  Our choice of .xz has thus been mostly
> one of inertia.
>
> But these days, there are strong arguments for including .lzip
> distributions, either in addition or in place of .xz:
> http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

Hi Eric,
My choice to use (and stay with) xz was not due to inertia, and I
object to the proposed change.

I found/find that xz is superior to lzip, and disapprove of the way
lzip's (clearly biased) author has attempted to denigrate xz.

Many of the "problems" listed in that document are irrelevant,
rebuttable and/or apply equally to lzip.

If you can find an objective, unbiased rationale for using lzip,
please share it.