Tarballs on ftp.gnome.org will switch compression formats. Change occurs in ~1 month and in ~7 months. This only for *new* tarballs. All existing tarballs on ftp.gnome.org will NOT be affected nor removed.
Currently tarballs are released using the formats: - tar.gz - tar.bz2 The intend is to switch to tar.xz only as per below transition period. After the last GNOME 3.0.x stable release (May 25th 2011) new releases will have: - tar.xz - tar.bz2 After the last GNOME 3.2.x stable release (expect Nov 16th 2011) new releases will have: - tar.xz To keep in mind: 1. This change only concerns *newly* released tarballs after above mentioned dates. 2. If a file is is currently available as .tar.gz, it will still be available after above mentioned dates. 3. Existing files will not be recompressed. E.g. I do *not* intend to make gtk+-1.1.12.tar.gz available as .tar.xz. For packagers: - the intention is to switch to .tar.xz so don't go from .tar.gz to .tar.bz; make sure to move to .tar.xz - default options are used for xz compression; requires about 9 MiB of memory to decompress (bz2 uses 3700KB) For maintainers: - for your information only; you do not need to do anything - ftpadmin script will automatically handle conversion of compression formats - you can upload .tar.gz files after May 25th; ftpadmin will do the right thing - we might do a GNOME goal to ensure 'make dist' creates a .tar.xz file that's optional though This has been suggested to the release-team and did not get any objections. Still, if you have concerns, I'd like to hear about it. I've set the reply-to to desktop-devel-list and distributor-list. -- Regards, Olav -- devel-announce-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce-list
