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Re: [opinion] bring back Octave xz source release
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Mike Miller |
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Re: [opinion] bring back Octave xz source release |
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Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:17:14 -0700 |
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On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 09:27:33 +0200, Andreas Weber wrote:
> Am 16.06.2017 um 19:27 schrieb Mike Miller:
> > Can we bring back the octave-x.y.z.tar.xz source format for future
> > official releases?
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> Just because you mentioned "xz":
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> "Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving"
> http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
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> Not a problem for us but IMHO worth to know.
Yeah, I'm very aware of the lzip author's longstanding campaign against
xz. It's because of one of these campaign threads, now trying to
convince the gcc maintainers to make releases with lzip, that I
discovered that 4.2.[01] are in the Debian archive as .tar.gz because
.tar.lz is not supported. In fact, AFAICT, every GNU project that
distributes a source release in .tar.lz format also offers .tar.xz.
--
mike