[ITP] lzip-1.8-1

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 09:55:43PM +0800, JonY wrote:
>On 11/10/2009 17:43, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Nov  9 21:03, JonY wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:28:52PM +0800, JonY wrote:
>>>>>> It is in Ubuntu:<http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/lzip>
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>> category: Archive
>>>>>> requires: cygwin libgcc1 libstdc++6
>>>>>> sdesc: "Lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm."
>>>>>> ldesc: "lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very
>>>>>> safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of
>>>>>> gzip or bzip2."
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Following Marco's advice, here is a wget'able list for lzip.
>>>
>>> http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2
>>> http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2
>>> http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/setup.hint
>>
>> Packaging looks almost good.  The binaries in usr/bin are missing
>> the .exe suffix for some reason.
>>
>>
>> Corinna
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>It was built and installed that way with cygport (Cygwin 1.7), the 
>provided non-autotools build system for lzip was originally designed for 
>Linux, eg "g++ -o bar foo.o".
>
>I think it has something to do with the rename() thing, but otherwise, 
>it runs perfectly fine.

We really shouldn't release a package which contains binaries lacking .exe
extensions.

YA test for the package lint vaporware.

cgf