On 17/07/16 10:47, Tomasz Buchert wrote:
> Hi Guido,
> thanks for finding this.
> The issue is caused by the outdated version of xz in Debian (5.1.0alpha).
> The option --block-list was added in 5.2.0 [1].
> I think that the most obvious solution is to release the new version of
> xz in debian + add a warning if we try to recreate a tarball with
> --block-list, but the xz version is < 5.2.0.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tomasz
> 
> [1] http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD

Unfortunately, the xz tarball does not reproduce even with xz 5.2.2
that I compiled myself. We'll have to find what options they used to
build this xz file and maybe also condider adding delta file support
(as in pristine-gz).

Tomasz

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