On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 08:13:56PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Wednesday 2022-12-07 19:56, Phil Sutter wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >| 984K iptables-1.8.8.tar.gz > >| 772K iptables-1.8.8.tar.bz2 > >| 636K iptables-1.8.8.tar.xz > > > >Moving to LZMA is trivial from a Makefile's point of view, but > >most packagers will have extra work adjusting for the new file name > > How hard could it be? Surely they'll manage to change _three > characters_ (or perhaps even ten, to manually run /usr/bin/<thing> if > there's no suffix autodetection) in their build recipe, right? Hey, if we're discussing almost negligible size reduction, I want to discuss almost negligible extra effort, too! :D Pablo, you're doing the legwork when it comes to releases, what's your opinion? Cheers, Phil
