17 Mar
2019
17 Mar
'19
1:29 p.m.
On 03/16/19 at 10:59pm, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
On 16/03/2019 13:24, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
suggest replacing xz with lzip as xz has quite a few flaws in its file format.
I seem to remember that this has been debunked/ruled out as irrelevant to package distribution every time it has been proposed to Debian, e.g. it even has worse decompression times then xz.
Apart from that, we have other important factors: * Is the archiving format reproducible, this is important for reproducible builds * zstd has been discussed in #archlinux-pacman some time ago but no descision has been taken yet. To be quite honest I don't believe this is one of the most pressing issues in Arch :)