New package: lzip-1.8-1

Thu Nov 19 14:33:00 GMT 2009

JonY sent the following at Thursday, November 19, 2009 1:18 AM
>>> JonY sent the following at Wednesday, November 11, 2009 6:36 AM
>>>>>> Version 1.8-1 of "lzip" has been uploaded.
>>>>>> lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm with a
>>> user interface similar to gzip or bzip2. It supports recovery from
>>> damaged archives.
>>>>>> Homepage:<http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html>
>>>On 11/17/2009 23:18, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>>> Apparently this was up-loaded only to /release-2/ (1.7). The
>> announcement says nothing about this being a 1.7-only package. If it
>> was meant to also be a 1.5 package, please upload it to /release/.
>>Sorry, I have failed to mention it as being a 1.7 only package for now.
>I do not currently have Cygwin 1.5 installed.
>I will try to get a Cygwin 1.5 build in a few days.

Jon,
Please don't feel that you have to prepare a 1.5 package for me. I just
wanted to be sure that a mistake hadn't been made.
I've never used lzip and just wanted to try it. I'm switching to 1.7
when it will be officially released and can try lzip then.
- Barry
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