Steering committee, please, consider using lzip instead of xz

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> For integrity checking, gcc provides the md5.sum, sha512.sum files on 
> gcc.gnu.org and gpg signatures on ftp.gnu.org.  The choice of xz is that 
> it is used very widely these days, which is not the case of lzip.

And given 
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00009.html
and especially the ensuing thread thereafter doesn't exactly increase my 
confidence in lzip taking off.


Ciao,
Michael.