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Re: [ITP] lzip-1.8-1


On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:28:52PM +0800, JonY wrote:
>Hi,
>Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm.
>
>It is in Ubuntu: <http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/lzip>
>
>The files are under <http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/>. 
>Unfortunately, its not browsable, here is the file list.
>
>\---lzip
>         lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2
>         lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2
>         setup.hint
>
>Example: <http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/setup.hint>
>
>Homepage: <http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html>
>
>category: Archive
>requires: cygwin libgcc1 libstdc++6
>sdesc: "Lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm."
>ldesc: "lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very
>  safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of
>  gzip or bzip2."

We already have xz.  Why do we need this?

cgf


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