Excerpts from Ciaran McCreesh's message of 2010-11-15 08:34:55 +0100: > On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:39:41 -0500 > Tom Trauth <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why does expatch (in the src_prepare phase) support zip, gzip, and > > bzip2, but not xz? For the sake of consistency, it seems like it > > should support xz as well, and I think such support could be > > implemented by merely adding the following three lines to its case > > statement: > > xz hasn't proven itself as a stable format. Once we add support for > unpacking a particular type of file, we're supposed to carry on > supporting it forever, which gets to be a real nuisance if the tool one > has to use to extract it keeps changing.
If im not mistaken you already do this for regular source packages in DOWNLOADS. - gaute
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