Re: lzip (was: Bison 3.6 released)

[Akim Demaille]

Hi Matias,

> Le 8 mai 2020 à 16:24, Matias Fonzo <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Hello Akim,
> 
> Congratulations for the new release of Bison!
> 
> El 2020-05-08 11:03, Akim Demaille escribió:
>> We are extremely happy to announce the release of Bison 3.6:
>> [..]
>> Here are the compressed sources:
>>  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.6.tar.gz   (5.1MB)
>>  https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-3.6.tar.xz   (3.1MB)
> 
> Please could you consider publishing and distributing versions of Bison in 
> lzip format[1], too?.
> 
> [1] http://lzip.nongnu.org/

I see that gettext uses it, so ok.  I installed this.  The gain
compared to xz is moderate.

2416 -rw-r--r-- 1 akim staff 2355103  8 mai 16:29 bison-3.6.1-0c77.tar.lz
5184 -rw-r--r-- 1 akim staff 4627008  8 mai 10:15 bison-3.6.tar.gz
3136 -rw-r--r-- 1 akim staff 2463276  8 mai 10:15 bison-3.6.tar.xz


commit f049a57eece63a54d31e32e672922d0bcf8f95f4
Author: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri May 8 17:34:07 2020 +0200

    build: also provide lzip compressed tarballs
    
    Suggested by Matias Fonzo <address@hidden>.
    
    * cfg.mk: Post announcements to bison-announce.
    * configure.ac: Build lzip packages.
    * .travis.yml: Build only xz, we don't care about the other formats
    here.

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6e413f22..162b9487 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ jobs:
         - ./bootstrap
         - ./configure --enable-gcc-warnings || { cat config.log && false; }
         - make -j2
-        - make -j2 dist
+        - make -j2 dist-xz
         # Can help understanding why we get "dirty" tarballs.
         - git status
         - dist=$(echo bison*.xz)
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 798d4592..e1547a05 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ gnulib_dir = $(srcdir)/gnulib
 bootstrap-tools = autoconf,automake,flex,gettext,gnulib
 
 announcement_Cc_ = \
-  address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, \
+  address@hidden, address@hidden, \
   address@hidden
 
 update-copyright: update-b4-copyright update-package-copyright-year
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 956ce4cd..edc05eb5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -36,10 +36,8 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR], 
[$PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR],
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 
-# We use Automake 1.14's %D% and %C%.
-#
 # When we move to Automake 1.16, simplify examples/c/reccalc/local.mk.
-# Our CI runs on Xenial, which has only Automake 1.15.
+# Our CI build the packages on Bionic, which has only Automake 1.15.
 #
 # We want gnits strictness only when rolling a stable release.  For
 # release candidates, we use version strings like 2.4.3_rc1, but gnits
@@ -47,7 +45,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 # releases, we want to be able run make dist without being required to
 # add a bogus NEWS entry.  In that case, the version string
 # automatically contains a dash, which we also let disable gnits.
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.14 dist-xz nostdinc
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.15 dist-lzip dist-xz nostdinc
                  color-tests parallel-tests
                  silent-rules]
                  m4_bmatch(m4_defn([AC_PACKAGE_VERSION]), [[-_]],