Re: Please, use --check=crc32 or switch to a safe format

[Eduardo Bustamante]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Ariel Santana Naranjo
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
>
> I have made an unsettling discovery:
> http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox
> "error detection in the xz format is silently broken."
>
> If this is true (and it might be, because it provides a reproducer), why
> is such a central project as GNU Coreutils being distributed in xz
> format only? Shouldn't Coreutils switch to a safe-by-default compressed
> format, as the above link suggests?

This has been discussed before:

- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-09/msg00028.html
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00008.html