[arch-dev-public] request: xz-utils into core

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun May 31 06:22:48 EDT 2009


Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Sonntag 01 März 2009 10:20:57 schrieb Andreas Radke:
>   
>> I've found more and more gnu tools being shipped in the new xz file
>> format. So may I request now to move lzma-utils' successor
>> http://tukaani.org/xz/ to be put into testing for some time and
>> later to core?
>>     
>
> I would like to bump this thread. KDE 4.3 will also make use of xz. And as we 
> already discussed we'll get libarchive support which might be usefull.
>
> If noone else want's to do it I would maintain this package.
>   

It seems no-one has strong opinions on this so go ahead and put it in 
[testing].

Allan






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