[bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to automake.

2025-03-13 Thread Kamila Szewczyk
No environment variables are explicitly read by the tool as stated by its source code. -- Yours, Kamila Szewczyk (https://palaiologos.rocks) On 3/13/25 9:40 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Sorry. That was a mistake. bzip3 does not read the BZIP2 environment > variable. > > Ok, wil

[bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to automake.

2025-03-13 Thread Kamila Szewczyk
Hi, Sorry. That was a mistake. bzip3 does not read the BZIP2 environment variable. -- With Valediction, Kamila Szewczyk (https://palaiologos.rocks) On 3/13/25 9:13 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Kamila, > > Thank you. Maybe it would be in order to also mention dist-bzip3 in the &

[bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to automake.

2025-03-13 Thread Kamila Szewczyk
Hi Karl, Thank you. Maybe it would be in order to also mention dist-bzip3 in the docs? -- With Valediction, Kamila Szewczyk (https://palaiologos.rocks) On 2/21/25 6:43 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Hi Kamila, > > Subject: [bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool

[bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to automake.

2024-10-13 Thread Kamila Szewczyk
make use of the Burrows-Wheeler transform. Hence, bzip3 really stands for Burrows-wheeler ZIP, but versions one and two were taken. To my knowledge, Julian does not have a trademark on the bzip series, which itself doesn't seem to infringe the IP of Katz' original PKZIP. -- Yours, Kam

[bug#73795] [PATCH] Add support for the bzip3 compression tool to automake.

2024-10-13 Thread Kamila Szewczyk
bzip3 (https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3) is a free and open-source LGPLv3-licensed data compression utility that excels at compressing text and source code. Compression ratio tests for the automake distribution tarball: % wc -c *tar* 1885428 automake-1.17.0.91.tar.bz2 1500817 automake-1.17.