[bt-devel] Possible packaging format change bz2 -> xz

Jaak Ristioja jaak at ristioja.ee
Tue Dec 10 01:02:22 MST 2013


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Hi!

I'm thinking of changing the BibleTime source code packaging format
from .tar.bz2 to .tar.xz which provides about 40% size reduction for
the source code (approx. 5.6 MB -> 3.2 MB)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz

Xz archives can be uncompressed using xz-utils ("unxz <filename.xz>")
and latest versions of GNU tar ("tar -xJf <filename.tar.xz>" or using
the --xz flag). Not all older platforms support the XZ file format.

It would also be an option to release both .tar.bz2 and .tar.xz source
packages.

My question to developers and packagers is: does anybody have good
objections against moving to .tar.xz only?

Blessings!
Jaak
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