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

[Eric Blake]

On 04/05/2017 09:42 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:

> Is there any chance to fix the problem once and for all by switching to
> lzip (as Eric Blake proposed[1]), instead of asking others to just
> palliate some of the symptoms?
> 
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00008.html

Note that I was not proposing "switching to lzip", but "adding lzip in
parallel to existing xz".  I still think that parallel distribution
formats is probably worthwhile, but I'm not strongly convinced enough to
push my patch through against the wishes of other core developers on the
project.

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