On Aug 29, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote: > I thought this was already the consensus, and the only dissenting > opinion was that the base system should still be using gzip so that > foreign non-Debian systems can unpack it w/o requiring to build or > install xz beforehand. I am not sure if there was a consensus that we really need to care so much about systems where xz is not installed by default. > Given the recent flurry of several packaging helpers and packages > switching to use xz, I think for jessie what makes most sense is > to switch all base packages to explicitly compress with gzip and then This looks like a lot of work for a dubious gain. -- ciao, Marco
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