Holger Levsen: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 04:54:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >> Holger Levsen: >>> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 07:07:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote: >>>> It is my understanding that the FTP masters want to retire Packages.gz >>>> shortly before the Stretch release. >>> >>> why shortly *before* the release? did you maybe mean shortly after the >>> release? >> I believe it will be "before" as once it is released, it will be too >> late to change (and I remember it as being targeted for Stretch). > > seems I was too subtile… so let's be blunt: why is this change done > shortly before the release and not months in advance? > >
It was done months ago (as in ½ year ago). That is why we know dose is broken with only ".xz" files. See also <87k2l3xua3....@gkar.ganneff.de> (from d-d-a dated 2016-03-15), which is my primary source on this matter. ~Niels