Hello Stephen,
> How a decision to drop xz for some other compression library for software
> would be a fairly slow process. First a person who is willing to do the work
> would come up with a proposal on why it should be done and how it could be
> done. They would be expected to also test to see how much trouble this would
> be (aka find all the packages which use xz and could be changed to another
> library, which ones couldn't and what the effects would be.) Once that is
> done, they would make a general proposal to be reviewed by whatever technical
> committee a distribution has (Fedora has one whose acronym is FESCO, Debian
> has another or multiple others, etc). This would be reviewed and if accepted
> it would go as a future release work with a staged plan where some packages
> are moved in X release, some in X+1, and some final plan for X+2 (or backed
> out completely for some reason before then). There would be some amount of
> software which would rely on xz no matter what because either the upstream
> has no interest in changing or it is meant to use xz period.
> ...
> Currently most groups are between 0 and 1. There are a lot of things which
> need to be looked at before moving off can be looked at as a goal to make
> sure we aren't making things worse.
>
> I hope the above helps
Thanks, I understand more of your explanation of how it's done.
I don't know how much time was needed to decide for example an Arch Distro
change
"Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression"
https://archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/
OK, that's my mistake. I thought that moving to open source Linux OS Distro
like Redhat-related Fedora would result big or important issues can be fixed
more efficiently than at Microsoft.
I guess I'm learning that even important or wise choices (not saying _this_
is) can't be done with taking a long time. Even if they are security related
issues.
Thanks one more time for the nice explanation!
Cheers!
Arnie
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