On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 1:38 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:01:22AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > I found this on HN today. While xz is not expressly being used within > > Fedora/Red Hat packaging in an archive context, it does seem to have > > quite a lot of other potential problems. But I have no idea what > > lurking liabilities zstd will have. > > > > http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html > > That page should be taken with a grain of salt. IIRC, it's was written > by some who wanted to push their own alternative version, and most of > the critique has been debunked. It's a fair point. The HN comments from a year ago and also this week get into some of that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103255 -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
