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Re: sed-4.3 released [stable]


From: Antonio Diaz Diaz
Subject: Re: sed-4.3 released [stable]
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 23:57:45 +0100
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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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