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> Furthermore, I was around when GNU Coreutils kicked off the initial > push to support dist-xz (initially named dist-lzma, before a change in > upstream [2]) because of its benefits over over dist-bz2 (compresses > smaller, decompresses faster) [3][4], and even when it ditched > dist-gzip leaving dist-xz as its ONLY release option [5][6], Could you please explain concretely what that means? Does it mean that, for some purpose, it supports _only_ the xz compression format? I removed autom...@gnu.org from this message because I don't think this subissue pertains directly to that. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
