Re: heads-up: 38 cleanup-maint patches

[Jose E. Marchesi]

    Re continuing to distribute gzip-compressed tarballs,
    I have to ask "Why?"

My only concern is breaking backwards compatibility in the distribution.
Failing to provide .gz tarballs at the usual location _will_ break a
good number of scripts, documents and protocols all around, creating
inconveniences for many users.

I don't feel particularly sanguine about it (xz rocks) but I don't
really think the potential inconveniences are worth the benefits of
distributing xz _only_.