On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:55:46PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote: > 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? Please, whoever feels like, go ahead and just send patches to generate lzma files in userspace netfilter tree wide, I remember this was discussed in the past. Thanks.
