Comment 5 for bug 539671

Krzysztof Kosinski wrote:
> Hm, indeed. But lzip support is not yet available in Automake. I guess
> this will have to wait until a version of Automake with lzip support
> becomes sufficiently widespread.

Lzip support will be present in next version of Automake[1], but it can
take months for it to become "sufficiently widespread". In the meantime,
  if you feel the bandwidth saving is worth the trouble, a lzipped
tarball can be easily generated from the bzip2ed one with these two
commands:
   bzip2 -kd inkscape-0.47.tar.bz2
   lzip -9 inkscape-0.47.tar
[1]http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-02/msg00028.html

Thanks,
Antonio.