Inkscape

  1. Bug #539671
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 539671

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Antonio Diaz Diaz (ant-diaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 539671] Re: Please, distribute lzip compressed source tarballs

Dear Krzysztof,

Krzysztof Kosinski wrote:
> It's better to use the more widely supported tar.lzma archives.

This is a very bad idea. The lzma-alone (.lzma) format is deprecated; it
lacks magic bytes and integrity checking. The efficiency of a program
can be improved; the shortcomings of a format are for ever.

> And the most important benefit is that they can be created and
> decompressed directly with GNU tar using the --lzma option, e.g.

Lzip files can be created the same way with tar 1.23:
   tar --lzip -xf inkscape-0.47.tar.lz

Or with the -I option for older versions of tar:
   tar -xf inkscape-0.47.tar.lz -Ilzip

Regards,
Antonio.