On 18.05.2017 03:34, Richard Biener wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> As discussed on IRC with Jakub and Richard here are is a small patch which >> builds xz compressed tarballs and diff files. >> >> Tested with >> >> maintainer-scripts/gcc_release \ >> -s snap:trunk -p <old bz2 tarball> diffs sources tarfiles >> maintainer-scripts/gcc_release \ >> -s snap:trunk -p <old xz tarball> diffs sources tarfiles >> >> and checked that the new tarball and diff files are compressed using xz. >> >> Ok for the trunk and the gcc-7-branch? > > Ok. The version on trunk can get the bz2 old-tar support removed after the > next > snapshot generation I think. Likewise the branch version after 7.2 > was released.
Looks like the copy of the script on gcc.gnu.org affects all active branches. the May 23 GCC 5 snapshot was created successfully. Is this acceptable? If yes, then the patch should probably go to the 5 and 6 branches as well. Please copy the script again to enable the xz --best compression. Matthias
