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Re: support for lzip
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: support for lzip |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:21:25 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-10-28) |
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 06:09:48PM CET:
> * Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:28:07PM CET:
> > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > >Well, to be honest, I regard the addition of lzma support as a mistake
> > >in hindsight. We should have waited and added xz support only, with a
> > >stable xz release. It was also a mistake that I did not deprecate lzma
> > >support more prominently in the 1.11 release; will fix that for 1.11.1.
> >
> > It seems this has not been fixed in 1.11.1.
>
> Darn. Thanks for the reminder.
Done as follows.
Cheers,
Ralf
Deprecate dist-lzma in favor of dist-xz.
* doc/automake.texi (The Types of Distributions, Options):
Adjust text to reflect renaming of lzma to xz.
* NEWS: Update.
Missing deprecation noted by Antonio Diaz Diaz.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2284680..a3ce191 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
New in 1.11.0a:
+* Miscellaneous changes:
+
+ - The `lzma' compression scheme and associated automake option `dist-lzma'
+ is obsoleted by `xz' and `dist-xz' due to upstream changes.
+
Bugs fixed in 1.11.0a:
* Bugs introduced by 1.11:
diff --git a/doc/automake.texi b/doc/automake.texi
index da4ac25..f319075 100644
--- a/doc/automake.texi
+++ b/doc/automake.texi
@@ -8444,6 +8444,8 @@ The Types of Distributions
@item @code{dist-lzma}
Generate an @samp{lzma} tar archive of the distribution. @command{lzma}
archives are frequently smaller than @command{bzip2}-compressed archives.
+The @samp{lzma} format is obsolete, you should use the @samp{xz} format
+instead.
@trindex dist-lzma
@item @code{dist-shar}
@@ -8453,7 +8455,7 @@ The Types of Distributions
@item @code{dist-xz}
Generate an @samp{xz} tar archive of the distribution. @command{xz}
archives are frequently smaller than @command{bzip2}-compressed archives.
-The @samp{xz} format will soon (early 2009) displace the @samp{lzma} format.
+The @samp{xz} format displaces the obsolete @samp{lzma} format.
@trindex dist-xz
@item @code{dist-zip}
@@ -8992,7 +8994,7 @@ Options
@item @option{dist-lzma}
@cindex Option, @option{dist-lzma}
@opindex dist-lzma
-Hook @code{dist-lzma} to @code{dist}.
+Hook @code{dist-lzma} to @code{dist}. Obsoleted by @code{dist-xz}.
@trindex dist-lzma
@item @option{dist-shar}
@@ -9261,7 +9263,7 @@ Options
These three mutually exclusive options select the tar format to use
when generating tarballs with @samp{make dist}. (The tar file created
is then compressed according to the set of @option{no-dist-gzip},
address@hidden, @option{dist-lzma} and @option{dist-tarZ} options in use.)
address@hidden, @option{dist-xz} and @option{dist-tarZ} options in use.)
These options must be passed as arguments to @code{AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE}
(@pxref{Macros}) because they can require additional configure checks.