Re: [bug-inetutils] deprectae .gz and only distribute .xz tarballs

[Mats Erik Andersson]

fredag den 30 mars 2012 klockan 12:23 skrev Alfred M. Szmidt detta:
>    > Any objections?
> 
>    Yes, I object. "xz" is not sufficiently well spread in default
>    system installations yet. Use "bz2" if you must change. That gives
>    better block robustness. Changing for size reduction is a
>    questionable motivation. Changing just because others have done so
>    is even worse.
> 
> xz is spread enough within the GNU project more so than bz2, and some
> projects have stoppped distributing gz tarballs completely.  But as
> compromise, since your objection is immensly valuable, lets distribute
> both gz and xz tarballs.

The observations I base my wish upon are these:

  * "GNU tar" and "FreeBSD tar" support compress, gzip, bzip2, and xz.

  * "OpenBSD tar" supports only compress, gzip, and bzip2.

  * "Solaris tar" supports no compression whatsoever.

Therefore I am pleased that you let us generate gzip-compressed archives
in addition to the, admittedly, more modern xz-compressed archives.

Best regards,
  Mats