Bug 57392

Summary: Wrong description in archivers/lha/Makefile [repost]
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: IIJIMA Hiromitsu <delmonta>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Andrey A. Chernov <ache>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
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Description IIJIMA Hiromitsu 2003-09-30 06:50:13 UTC 
** THIS IS A REPOST OF ports/57318 (doc-bug CLASS) WITH change-request CLASS,
	since I was suggested that ports/57318 is not a doc-bug class issue **

ports/archivers/lha/Makefile says 'Archive files using LZW compression',
but it is incorrect. LHa uses LZSS (a descendant of LZ77) and Huffman codings,
and never uses LZW which is patented by Unisys.
Calling it as 'LZW compression' WILL cause confusion among people,
so it should be corrected.

How-To-Repeat: Just make a Google search to confirm that LHa uses LZSS and Huffman codings,
not LZW.
Comment 1 Kirill Ponomarev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-09-30 07:15:20 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->ache

Over to maintainer
Comment 2 Andrey A. Chernov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2003-09-30 14:29:01 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Fix committed