Re: Using .tar.xz only on ftp.gnome.org (was: install-module / ftp.gnome.org / master.gnome.org)

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 03:55:18PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2011/3/19 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu debian org>:
> > On 19/03/11 11:19, Olav Vitters wrote:
> >> As a pre-warning, could you please ask the ftp-masters again to support
> >> .xz?
> >
> > They have included this item in their agenda for the meeting. I've told them
> > that GNOME plans to switch to .xz soon and that not allowing that in Debian
> > would mean we'd need to repackage upstream tarballs (which is bad).
> 
> Would tar.xz be the only available format or do you plan to keep both
> .gz and .xz tarballs
>  (as currently there are .gz and .bz2)?

Only .tar.xz.

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Regards,
Olav