Re: [sysvinit-devel] [PATCH 6/6] build: Switch release tarballs to xz compression

[Matias Fonzo]

Hi Jesse,

I request to as the maintainer of sysvinit to reject this change.
Please do not do that, xz is not well-designed.  See:

http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html

On Fri,  4 May 2018 23:31:45 +0200
Guillem Jover <address@hidden> wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <address@hidden>
> ---
>  Makefile | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 91e3966..c091a70 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ all install clean distclean:
>  
>  PACKAGE=sysvinit
>  VERSION=$(shell git describe --tags --abbrev=4 HEAD 2>/dev/null | tr
> %_ :~) -override TARBALL=$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.bz2
> -override TARBALL_LATEST=$(PACKAGE)-latest.tar.bz2
> +override TARBALL=$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.xz
> +override TARBALL_LATEST=$(PACKAGE)-latest.tar.xz
>  override SFTPBATCH=upload-$(VERSION)-sftpbatch
>  
>  dist: $(TARBALL)