At 2.68b, I asked whether anyone would miss .gz and .bz2 formats. Consensus was overwhelming that .gz still holds a place in people's hearts, in spite of .xz compressing to smaller files, but no one was able to make a convincing argument for .bz2.
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Drop bzip2; xz wins hands down. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]> --- See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2012-03/msg00001.html for the long thread of discussion. configure.ac | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 280cc0e..696e513 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4]) AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux]) -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-bzip2 dist-xz -readme-alpha no-texinfo.tex std-options]) +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11 dist-xz readme-alpha no-texinfo.tex std-options]) AB_INIT -- 1.7.7.6
