Re: GNU Coding Standards, automake, and the recent xz-utils backdoor

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Furthermore, I was around when GNU Coreutils kicked off the initial
  > push to support dist-xz (initially named dist-lzma, before a change in
  > upstream [2]) because of its benefits over over dist-bz2 (compresses
  > smaller, decompresses faster) [3][4], and even when it ditched
  > dist-gzip leaving dist-xz as its ONLY release option [5][6], 

Could you please explain concretely what that means?  Does it mean
that, for some purpose, it supports _only_ the xz compression format?

I removed automake@gnu.org from this message because I don't think
this subissue pertains directly to that.

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