Subject: bug#38256: Packages sources in '.tar.lz' archives

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:37:20 +0100

Hi Guillaume,

Guillaume Le Vaillant <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Currently, when package sources are in a '.tar.lz' archive (e.g. ed,
> wget, ddrescue, etc.), the 'lzip' package must be explicitly put into
> the 'native-inputs' of the package definition, or building the package
> fails.
>
> Would it be possible to make the 'lzip' package available by default in
> the build process, like 'gzip', 'bzip2' and 'xz'?

Yes.  There’s not a strong incentive because there are relatively few
packages distributed as lz files, but we could do that in
‘core-updates’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.