Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Paul Eggert wrote: On 12/15/2012 05:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: FYI, a couple of weeks ago, Aki Helin exposed still more problems in gzip's unpacking code. Well, to be fair, I also have a similar problem with 'tar' in my

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Paul Eggert wrote: On 12/15/2012 05:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: FYI, a couple of weeks ago, Aki Helin exposed still more problems in gzip's unpacking code. Well, to be fair, I also have a similar

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Marko Lindqvist wrote: On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 release,

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-15 Thread Paul Eggert
On 12/15/2012 05:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: FYI, a couple of weeks ago, Aki Helin exposed still more problems in gzip's unpacking code. Well, to be fair, I also have a similar problem with 'tar' in my inbox, from Aki, but I'm not inclined to suggest that we stop using 'tar'

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-15 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: On 12/15/2012 05:54 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: FYI, a couple of weeks ago, Aki Helin exposed still more problems in gzip's unpacking code. Well, to be fair, I also have a similar problem with 'tar' in my inbox, from Aki, but I'm not inclined to suggest that we stop using

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Marko Lindqvist wrote: On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 release, please speak up now. I just encountered new argument for

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Marko Lindqvist wrote: On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 release, please speak up now.

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-08 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Jim Meyering wrote: I just encountered new argument for providing .gz of autoconf also in the future. There is no tangible benefit offered to the world by removing the gzip-compressed autoconf package. Xz is excessively complex, excessively large, and has limited

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-12-08 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 8 December 2012 23:01, Jim Meyering j...@meyering.net wrote: Marko Lindqvist wrote: On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 release,

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-11-24 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 11/24/2012 09:16 AM, Marko Lindqvist wrote: On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 release, please speak up now. I just encountered

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-11-24 Thread Marko Lindqvist
On 24 November 2012 10:58, Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattar...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/24/2012 09:16 AM, Marko Lindqvist wrote: On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if this would be a hardship for you,

Re: Future autoconf package compression

2012-11-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012, Marko Lindqvist wrote: On 2 March 2012 06:45, Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com wrote: The Autoconf team is considering releasing only .xz files for 2.69; if this would be a hardship for you, and you need the .gz or .bz2 release, please speak up now. I just encountered new