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From: | Maria Bisen |
Subject: | Re: [sysvinit-devel] Switch release tarballs to xz |
Date: | Sun, 6 May 2018 21:39:59 +0200 |
I am CC'ing this email to Antonio Diaz Diaz (author of lzip) and also
including Maria Bisen to have a different opinion coming from the
Debian project.
having been on the receiving end of this
propaganda effort at another project where similar claims were
debunked, I am disinclined to believe the author's conclusions.
3. The xz compression software is used by many projects, including
several Linux distributions which means it is used to compress a lot
of packages probably well over a million archives. If the document
linked above were accurate we could expect there to be thousands of
examples of unrecoverable archives, even if corruption was a problem
less than 0.1% of the time. This does not appear to be the case. Even
if it were, we can always create new archives from the git tree.
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