[MacPorts] #55475: wget useless requirement of lzip

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#55475: wget useless requirement of lzip
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  Reporter:  SaintBol  |      Owner:  ryandesign
      Type:  defect    |     Status:  closed
  Priority:  Low       |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports     |    Version:
Resolution:  invalid   |   Keywords:
      Port:  wget      |
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Changes (by ryandesign):

 * status:  assigned => closed
 * type:  update => defect
 * version:  1.9.2 =>
 * resolution:   => invalid


Old description:

> In commit [d7fd082d9e3ccc0a1366b3ad15ea8a7c832c9ed4/macports-ports], wget
> suddenly requires lzip instead of xz:
> -use_xz                  yes
> +use_lzip                yes
>
> This requirement triggers installation of lzip, which doesn't offer any
> advantage over xz (while xz is usually already installed since plenty of
> other stuff requires it).
> It appears (and it's easy to check, even while browsing macports tickets)
> that about nobody except its own author uses lzip (also author of
> ddrescue, which explains why ddrescue is lzip compressed).
> I suggest to revert to an xz compressed archive to avoid installing
> useless additional stuff.

New description:

 In commit [d7fd082d9e3ccc0a1366b3ad15ea8a7c832c9ed4/macports-ports], wget
 suddenly requires lzip instead of xz:
 {{{
 -use_xz                  yes
 +use_lzip                yes
 }}}

 This requirement triggers installation of lzip, which doesn't offer any
 advantage over xz (while xz is usually already installed since plenty of
 other stuff requires it).
 It appears (and it's easy to check, even while browsing macports tickets)
 that about nobody except its own author uses lzip (also author of
 ddrescue, which explains why ddrescue is lzip compressed).
 I suggest to revert to an xz compressed archive to avoid installing
 useless additional stuff.

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Comment:

 If the developers of wget distributed an xz-compressed tarball of version
 1.19.2, I would have had the portfile continue to use it. But in 1.19.2
 the developers stopped providing xz-compressed tarballs and started
 providing lz-compressed tarballs, so I switched the portfile to that.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55475#comment:2>
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