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 :)
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