On Tuesday 13 December 2011, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> > > I don't, but I have another consideration: since lzma seems to be supersed > > by xz [1][2], couldn't we simply deprecate the `dist-lzma' option in this > > 11.1.2 version, and remove it altogether from the next major (or even minor) > > version? WDYT? > > Once the feature is removed entirely, Automake will fail unless the > Makefile.am file is edited. That might become really annoying if the > automake user has no expectations of becoming a package maintainer. > Another option is to silently (or with a warning) start producing xz > files at some point if `dist-lzma' is still specified. The xz format > is still lzma compressed so it is not a lie. > This sounds like a good idea (if we still produce a warning under `-Wobsolete' when the `lzma-dist' is used). Anyway, that's IMHO something we can worry about after 11.1.2, since there is no regression here.
Thanks, Stefano
