Distributing lzip compressed tarballs

Tue May 26 15:42:10 UTC 2009

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> I'll look into doing that for upcoming releases, such as 2.6.29.2, and
> then I'll retrofit it to earlier releases.

Thank you. I have just downloaded linux-2.6.29.4-libre.tar.lz :-)

Do you know that Dragora (a GNU/Linux distro shipping linux-libre) is 
switching to lzip for compressing its packages.
http://dragora.org/index.php?option=com_jumi&fileid=1&Itemid=31 ?

Best regards,
Antonio.