Re: [xml] Release of libxml2 2.9.13

[Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de>]

Nick Wellnhofer via xml schrieb am 20.02.22 um 13:53:
> Version 2.9.13 of libxml2 is available at:
>
>      https://download.gnome.org/sources/libxml2/2.9/

Thank you for the release, Nick!


> Note that starting with this release, libxml2 tarballs are published on 
> download.gnome.org instead of ftp.xmlsoft.org.

I noticed that they now use xz compression, whereas they were simply gzip 
compressed before. libxslt also changed the compression. That makes it more 
difficult to download them automatically, because scripts that want to list 
the available files now have to search for different file names. Also, 
Python 2.7 does not have built-in lzma compression support and needs an 
external module in order to handle it. (Both gz and bz2 have been supported 
essentially forever, OTOH.)

And it seems that xz is not considered safe for long-term storage by everyone:

https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

Could you make the archives available in a (second) format that matches all 
(previous) releases? Apparently, both libxml2 and libxslt were made 
available with gz and bz2 compression before. Either of them would probably 
be fine. bz2 seems to compress equally well as xz here. (And compression 
speed, where bz2 suffers a bit, was never an issue for downloads anyway, 
just decompression speed, where all three are fine.)

Thanks,
Stefan