Hi Andrew, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> I just noticed that the version of xz-utils in wheezy is > 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 The xz-utils package in sid has been tracking the 5.1.y series for a long time. Unfortunately there hasn't been an official stable release from that branch. > From upstream's website: > > Development > The new APIs, command line options etc. in development releases should > be > considered unstable. Incompatible changes to unstable features may be > done > before they get included in a stable release. Upstream's comment on this was: > I sound like going between opinions, but it doesn't seem to make a huge > *technical* difference if Wheezy's xz says 5.1.1alpha or 5.0.4. Showing > "alpha" can scare some users though. The new things in 5.1 are: > - --single-stream > - --block-size=SIZE > - .lzo support in scripts > - Required xz version in --robot -lvv output > > I think I can keep those stable (enough;-) interface wise. So you don't > need to worry about that. The other important difference between 5.0.y and 5.1.y is threading support, but there is a patch removing that in wheezy and sid. I am strongly against moving back to 5.0.4. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120601222916.GB8409@burratino
