Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> writes: > I'm considering applying the attached to only distribute xz tarballs. > > We didn't release .tar.gz sources since coreutils-8.14 (2011), > but then re-enabled .tar.gz since coreutils-8.32 (2020). > That was to support Guix bootstrapping 100% from sources: > https://lists.gnu.org/r/coreutils/2020-02/msg00042.html > > Since then I understand Guix' bootar got xz support. > > Also I noticed in all the plethora of (older) systems I tested > coreutils 9.8 on, that xz was supported on them all. > > Also it's another 5 years down the line. > > cheers, > Padraig > > p.s. I did a quick test with zstd (supported since automake 1.16.2 (2020)), > but the file size was about the same (a little bigger), > so I don't think we get enough benefits from enabling that.
I don't see any harm in having a backup format. Remember the Jia Tan situation where everyone was rightfully afraid of running 'xz' until it was rolled back? Collin
