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This could be achieved of archiving the source tree of the compression software/version used to create the backups, or at least a version note. Nowadays with version control every can checkout and revert to older versions when they need to.

I'm not convinced it's the compression software author responsibility.

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Without a running software, not check is made for the build. And without a checked build, one day, you will realize your machine can build this anymore and you would need to understand the algo, port it and compile it yourself to open a file.

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