From what I read on masto, the original maint had personal life breakdown, etc. Their interest in staying as primary maint is gone.
This is a very strong argument for FOSS to pick up the good habit of ditching/un-mainlining projects where they are sitting around for state actors to volunteer injecting commits to, and dep-stripping active projects from this cruft.
Who wants to maintain on a shitty compression format? Someone who is dephunting, it turns out.
Okay so your pirate-torrent person needs liblzma.so Offer it in the scary/oldware section of the package library that you need to hunt down the instructions to turn on. Let the users see that it's marked as obsolete, enterprises will see that it should go on the banlist.
Well isn't this an interesting commit. He finished his inject macro to compose the payload at build, so now he can start clearing up the repo so none of that shit gets seen when cruising through it.
don't miss out on the quality code, like the line that has: i += 4 - 2;
https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=50255feeaab...