Hello Stephen,
How a decision to drop xz for some other compression library for software would be a fairly slow process. First a person who is willing to do the work would come up with a proposal on why it should be done and how it could be done. They would be expected to also test to see how much trouble this would be (aka find all the packages which use xz and could be changed to another library, which ones couldn't and what the effects would be.) Once that is done, they would make a general proposal to be reviewed by whatever technical committee a distribution has (Fedora has one whose acronym is FESCO, Debian has another or multiple others, etc). This would be reviewed and if accepted it would go as a future release work with a staged plan where some packages are moved in X release, some in X+1, and some final plan for X+2 (or backed out completely for some reason before then). There would be some amount of software which would rely on xz no matter what because either the upstream has no interest in changing or it is meant to use xz period....Currently most groups are between 0 and 1. There are a lot of things which need to be looked at before moving off can be looked at as a goal to make sure we aren't making things worse.I hope the above helps
Thanks, I understand more of your explanation of how it's done.
I don't know how much time was needed to decide for example an Arch Distro change
"Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression"
https://archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/
OK, that's my mistake. I thought that moving to open source Linux OS Distro like Redhat-related Fedora would result big or important issues can be fixed more efficiently than at Microsoft.
I guess I'm learning that even important or wise choices (not saying _this_ is) can't be done with taking a long time. Even if they are security related issues.
Thanks one more time for the nice explanation!
Cheers!
Arnie
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