On Wednesday 14 December 2011, Peter Rosin wrote: > Stefano Lattarini skrev 2011-12-13 18:17: > > On Monday 12 December 2011, Peter Rosin wrote: > >> > >> Hoping to fix the last fail in the testsuite, I looked > >> into adding something like LZMA_OPT or something to "make dist-lzma". > >> But in my cursory googling, I could not get my grips around what > >> variable to use. Does anyone know? > >> > > 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? > > That seems a bit drastic to me. > Why? After all, lzma is deprecated by its own author in favor of xz, and using a deprecated format/program to distribute software whose tarballs should remain available for various years at least (as is the case with most GNU software) seems like a bad idea to me.
BTW, I like Bob's idea that the `dist-lzma' option could just start producing `.xz' tarballs to avoid a too-sudden backward-incompatibility, so I'll likely go down that road (after 1.11.2). Opinions? Regards, Stefano
