Re: [Bug-ddrescue] ddrescue tarball formats

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Lars Wendler wrote:
> At the time of my initial email we didn't have lziprecover in our
> repository. But I added it to our tree meanwhile.

Thanks.

I guess lziprecover was in Gentoo's repository at least until 19 Mar 
2012 as part of the lzip package[1]. In version 1.13 lzip and 
lziprecover became two separate projects.

[1]http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-arch/lzip/ChangeLog?view=markup


> Still lziprecover is no hard requirement for ddrescue and thus I'd
> prefer to have ddresue tarball in some different compressed format
> available.

Ddrescue 1.18 is planned to produce new types of log files[2] and 
compress them using lzip. So lzip could become a hard requirement for 
ddrescue soon.

[2] http://freecode.com/projects/addrescue/releases/356852


> Would there be a chance of you uploading the tarballs additionally to
> the lzip compressed ones in some other format like xz?

Until five years ago I was making releases in a single format (bzip2). 
Then I switched to a dual format (gzip + lzip) as a transition to 
releasing again a single format (lzip). So the question is, for how long 
do you need me to continue making dual format releases? (Please, don't 
say "forever"). :-)


> Or in case you completely dislike that idea, would you be okay with me
> providing xz-compressed tarballs of ddrescue from my Gentoo dev-space?

That would be nice (aka "less work for me"). But why xz? Is there a 
conspiration to "Force people to start migrating to xz-utils"[3]? ;-)

[3]http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/coreutils/ChangeLog

BTW, lzip compresses source tarballs a little more than xz.


Best regards,
Antonio.