Hello Stefano,
Stefano Lattarini wrote:
The lzma utilities are today superseded by the xz utilities;
Please, could it be possible to stop spreading the false idea that xz is
somehow the only succesor to lzma(_alone)? They came from different
authors (Ville Koskinen, Lasse Collin) and do not share a single line of
code.
$ lzma -h
lzma 4.32.7 Copyright (C) 2005 Ville Koskinen
Based on LZMA SDK 4.32 Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Igor Pavlov
[...]
$ xz -h
[...]
Report bugs to <lasse.col...@tukaani.org> (in English or Finnish).
XZ Utils home page: <http://tukaani.org/xz/>
(As you can see, xz does not even display a proper copyright notice).
Given that lzip "supersedes"[1] lzma in the creation of compressed
tarballs as much as xz does, I propose to replace this:
+ - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
+ deprecated in favor of `xz', and will be removed the next major
+ Automake release (1.12).
with this:
+ - The `lzma' compression format for distribution archives has been
+ deprecated, and will be removed in the next major Automake release
+ (1.12).
[1] There is a program in the lzip family able to decompress lzma_alone
files; pdlzip. http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html
Regards,
Antonio.
