Re: Switch of GNOME tarball compression format: tar.xz only

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Vincent Untz wrote:

> Le dimanche 11 septembre 2011, à 13:41 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit :
> > If you have concerns, I'd like to hear about it. I've set the reply-to
> > to desktop-devel-list and distributor-list.
> 
> With a few other (non-gnome) tarballs switching to xz-only, one thing I
> realized is that python doesn't support that yet:
>  http://bugs.python.org/issue6715
> 
> It means that, for my downstream activities, I'll have to update some
> scripts to work around this missing feature in python.

This is also a problem for library-web (library.gnome.org & developer.
gnome.org).


        Fred