Re: address@hidden: Adding --lzma option to make-dist]

[Dan Nicolaescu]

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

  > Fortunately, another hacker has put together a 100% free distribution,
  > with the standard autotools && make infrastructure, and a cmdline
  > interface similar to gzip and bzip2:
  > http://tukaani.org/lzma/
  > 
  > The only caveat is that the file format will change once more; however,
  > newer versions will be able to read older lzma archives, so as long as
  > we stick to the 4.32.x series for now, it should be fine to use.

Do you know if the format change will add a proper magic number? Right
now the "file" command cannot recognize lzma files. I talked to the
"file" maintainer and he looked at it and said that the format is not
suitable for "file"... If you know the people involved, please forward
this concern.

Thanks

        --dan