Add support for .lz and .lz4 compression algorithms#177
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Add support for .lz and .lz4 compression algorithms#177
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Usefulness is high. Implementation is not ready yet.
LZ4 handler currently ignores header/block/content checksums and does not reject BlockIndependence == 0, even though dependent blocks need previous-block history. That can silently produce wrong output on valid frames.
Lzip handler is similarly partial: trailer CRC/member-size are not validated and concatenated members are ignored, so advertised .lz support is broader than actual implementation.
Merge readiness: 2/10. Before merge: validate required frame/trailer fields, reject unsupported features explicitly, and add corpus/tests for dependent blocks, concatenated members, and malformed inputs.
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Added read-only support for lzip (.lz) and LZ4 (.lz4) compressed archives.
Here are files examples: archive.tar.lz, archive.tar.lz4