Re: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org

[David King <davidk openismus com>]

On 2011-03-02 13:46, Javier Jardón <jjardon gnome org> wrote:
> On 2 March 2011 11:57, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
>
> > First step: kindly ask maintainers to use dist-lzma in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> > ;-)
>
> I think would be better dist-xz instead, as xz displaced the lzma
> format some time ago [1]
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#The-Types-of-Distributions

This seems like another good reason to push the (proposed) autotools 
modernisation goal:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools

at least once someone adds the dist-xz suggestion to that page. ;)

As dist-xz was introduced in Automake 1.11, this would also seem like a 
good reason to push for requiring that version (or maybe 1.11.1 would be 
better, as it fixes a security bug in 1.11). Either that, or 
install-module could do the conversion server-side.

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