New package: lzip-1.8-1

[JonY]

On 11/19/2009 21:26, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> 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
>    Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
>

Hi,
IMO, Cygwin 1.5 is nearly deprecated. For completeness, lzip for Cygwin 
1.5 should be up on the mirrors by now.

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