[Rpm-maint] rpm: support lzip compression for %setup (patch)

Tue Oct 6 17:54:42 UTC 2009

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
 > IMO, rpm should not adopt lzip  support, unless lzip has proven to be
 > a functional and viable tool.

Many people think lzip has already proven that:
http://lpar.ath0.com/2009/09/25/documentation-as-an-indicator-of-code-quality/
http://www.dragora.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=makepkg
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/100-open-source-gems-part-2
http://packages.debian.org/sid/lzip

Lzip is even used to distribute GNU packages on ftp.gnu.org.