Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

[Baybal Ni <nikulinpi gmail com>]

What is xz?

On 19 March 2011 07:57, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 03:55:18PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> 2011/3/19 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu debian org>:
>> > On 19/03/11 11:19, Olav Vitters wrote:
>> >> As a pre-warning, could you please ask the ftp-masters again to support
>> >> .xz?
>> >
>> > They have included this item in their agenda for the meeting. I've told them
>> > that GNOME plans to switch to .xz soon and that not allowing that in Debian
>> > would mean we'd need to repackage upstream tarballs (which is bad).
>>
>> Would tar.xz be the only available format or do you plan to keep both
>> .gz and .xz tarballs
>>  (as currently there are .gz and .bz2)?
>
> Only .tar.xz.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Olav
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