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Re: Future autoconf package compression
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Future autoconf package compression |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Dec 2012 03:35:50 +0100 |
Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/15/2012 05:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> FYI, a couple of weeks ago, Aki Helin exposed still more problems in
>> gzip's unpacking code.
>
> Well, to be fair, I also have a similar problem with 'tar'
> in my inbox, from Aki, but I'm not inclined to suggest that
> we stop using 'tar'....
Of course. Nor am I.
GNU tar's overall code quality is far higher than that of gzip.