Bug#1001655: Avoid hardcoding depends on specific lzip implementations

2021-12-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 12/29/21 05:41, Felix Lechner wrote: Will that work for backports, too? all the alternatives are in place, unchanged (apart from the lzd alternative removal), since jessie and newer; so.. that's perfectly fine to use for backports back up to jessie. the niche-case where someone would ins

Bug#1001655: Avoid hardcoding depends on specific lzip implementations

2021-12-28 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Daniel, On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 7:09 PM Daniel Baumann wrote: > > you can now safely depend on ... "plzip | lzip-decompressor" Great, thanks! Will that work for backports, too? Kind regards Felix Lechner

Bug#1001655: Avoid hardcoding depends on specific lzip implementations

2021-12-28 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi Felix, > Looking at your documentation [1] does that mean Lintian can only > offer the alternatives except lzd? yes; to make that easier.. given that lzd is the only one that doesn't support '--test', I've dropped it from the alternatives handling and updated README.Debian accordingly: ht

Bug#1001655: Avoid hardcoding depends on specific lzip implementations

2021-12-13 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Daniel, On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 2:00 PM Daniel Baumann wrote: > > all of them, except lzd, do implement --test. Looking at your documentation [1] does that mean Lintian can only offer the alternatives except lzd? Or, is there another way to assess the actual nature or integrity of a file nam

Bug#1001655: Avoid hardcoding depends on specific lzip implementations

2021-12-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Hi Felix On 12/13/21 21:18, Felix Lechner wrote: We only use the '--test' functionality. Is that implemented by all alternatives? all of them, except lzd, do implement --test. Also, do we still need to determine the proper name of the executable, as introduced in this commit? there are alt

Bug#1001655: Avoid hardcoding depends on specific lzip implementations

2021-12-13 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Daniel, On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 11:36 AM Daniel Baumann wrote: > >if only decompression is used: >'lzip | lzip-decompressor' We only use the '--test' functionality. [1] Is that implemented by all alternatives? Also, do we still need to determine the proper name of the executable, as

Bug#1001655: Avoid hardcoding depends on specific lzip implementations

2021-12-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Package: lintian Version: 2.114.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, in #967083, someone requested that the lintian depends on lzip should be changed into an alternative depends on 'lzip | clzip' with the justification, that the submitter prefered clzip as his lzip-implementation-of-choice (for memory fo