On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 18:02:56 +0100, Milos Jakubicek <xjakub@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Chen, > > On 12.2.2010 12:50, Chen Lei wrote: > > I realized from "http://tukaani.org/xz/"; the core of the xz utils > > compression code is based on LZMA SDK <http://7-zip.org/sdk.html>, but > > it has been modified quite a lot to be suitable for XZ Utils. > > So I think we should ship lzma sdk for fedora in parallel with xz utils > > and p7zip. Since xz utils are the successor to lzma utils, maybe lzma > > utils can be safely retired in fedora. > > Retiring lzma (completely) is a long-term plan, yes (I'm the maintainer > of it). Not sure about the right time -- F14? > > I'll talk to the libarchive maintainer -- any other objections against > the plan to retire lzma for F14? I think that would work well. If that happens, then I think replacing lzma-lib with something that just provides the current lzma SDK as a library would be nice. I haven't looked closely enough at that to be able to tell if that is doable with just a spec file or if there should be a fedorahosted project inbetween to provide some infrastucture for the package. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
