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Re: [PATCH] make-release: switch to .xz format by default
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [PATCH] make-release: switch to .xz format by default |
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Tue, 5 Mar 2024 09:50:57 +0000 |
On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 18:52, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
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> For a long time, we provide two compression formats in the
> download area, .bz2 and .xz. There's absolutely no reason
> to provide two in parallel, .xz compresses better, and all
> the links we use points to .xz. Downstream distributions
> mostly use .xz too.
Seems reasonable. Out of curiosity, do we have the
download stats on how many .xz vs .bz2 downloads we get?
Stefan or Paolo, do you have the webserver info?
(Probably not worth bothering if it's a big pain to
get the data.)
thanks
-- PMM