On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:29:11PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Hi Phil > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 01:13:39AM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote: > > Use a more modern alternative to bzip2. > > I tested this one for libmnl specifically and it works fine with `make > distcheck`. I can quickly update the release script here to refer to > tar.xz instead of tar.bz2. > > I have seen other projects offering both .tar.bz2 and .tar.xz, the > reason for this for me is unknown, I guess using .tar.xz should be > fine for everyone? Maybe cruft from a time when LZMA support in tar was new. Maybe also people whining about failing distfile downloads. Just for the record, one may easily configure automake to create multiple archives with different compressions from the same 'make dist' command. > Please go ahead push out these patches, thanks. Will do, thanks! Cheers, Phil
