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From: | Antonio Diaz Diaz |
Subject: | Re: sed-4.3 released [stable] |
Date: | Wed, 04 Jan 2017 23:57:45 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 |
Thanks for this new release of GNU sed. Jim Meyering wrote:
"make dist" now builds .tar.xz files, rather than .tar.gz ones.
Please, don't replace gzip and bzip2 files with xz files. The xz format has serious design flaws[1]. Xz-embedded implementations like Busybox can't verify the integrity of standard xz files[2]. Please, at least continue distributing also .tar.gz files.
[1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html [2] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html Thanks, Antonio.
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