Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Daniel, Hi,
> Apparently [1] XZ Utils and Lzip both provide an lzdiff command. The > XZ Utils version is meant for comparing .lzma files, though it also > can compare .xz, .gz, and .bz2 files. From the Lzip manual I gather > that its version compares .lz, .gz, and .bz2 files, but I couldn't > tell whether it handles .lzma files. the manpage is not up2date (going to fix that, thanks for the pointer ;). lzdiff is just a shell script that wrapps over lzip, which means it can compare any format that lzip can decompress which in turn means that yes, it can compare lzma compressed files. > For now, I'm making xz-utils > conflict with lzip, but I don't think that's a good solution in the > long term. ack, conflicts are bad and last resort only. > Can Lzip handle .lzma files? If so, do you think it's worth using > alternatives to manage the lzdiff name? If not, what do you think > should be done (e.g., I could just not ship lzdiff --- its > functionality is in xzdiff, anyway)? no hard feelings and no strong opinions, but from the namespace used in both packages, it would make most sense to me that lzdiff is in lzip, and xzdiff is in xz-utils. however, if you'd like to keep lzdiff in your package and think it's usefull, let's do an alternative then, no problem. Regards, Daniel -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: daniel.baum...@panthera-systems.net Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
