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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/lzip.README.Debian | 15 |
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diff --git a/debian/lzip.README.Debian b/debian/lzip.README.Debian index eb71338..ba77528 100644 --- a/debian/lzip.README.Debian +++ b/debian/lzip.README.Debian @@ -22,9 +22,10 @@ Lzip is available in different implementations: All Lzip implementations are fully compatible (files can be compressed and decompressed with any implementation interchangeably). -All Lzip implementations support the same command line switches: if an option -is not implemented it is silently ignored (e.g. the -n option to set the number -of threads is accepted by all implementations but only plzip makes use of it). +All Lzip implementations support the same command line switches (except for lzd): +if an option is not implemented it is silently ignored (e.g. the -n option to set +the number of threads is accepted by all implementations but only plzip makes +use of it). 2. update-alternatives @@ -38,8 +39,7 @@ implementation. All Lzip packages provide the virtual lzip-alternatives package. The following automatic priorities are used: Decompressors: - xlunzip -3000 - lzd -2000 + xlunzip -2000 lunzip -1000 Compressor and decompressors: @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ packages as well as alternatives in /usr/bin. This allows one to use a mixed mode of setting lzip alternatives globally, such as using plzip for decompression and lzip for compression. +Note: lzd (decompressor only, educational purpose) doesn't provide the '--test' +parameter to verify compressed file integrity (which now is the base-line +requirement for all lzip variants providing alternatives) and is therefore +not providing any update-alternative handling. + 3. Best practice ---------------- |