tarball types (was: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-libinput 1.2.1)

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 1/25/22 00:56, Mark Kettenis wrote:
 > OpenBSD's tar does not support xz, so yes, switching to xz-only
 > releases would be an inconvenience.
 >
 > Is there a reason to stop making .gz files?  The amount of storage and
 > bandwidth required to make those available can't be significant in
 > today's world and stop making them is actual work ;).

On 1/25/22 01:23, Julien Cristau wrote:
> I'm still using the gz tarballs for the Debian source packages and would
> like to keep doing that, if possible.

Okay, I'm happy to not put in the effort to do another walk across all the
modules to add the "no-dist-gzip" flag to their configure.ac files.

But as whot noted, meson is only producing xz files, and we are planning
to convert more and more of the X.Org packages to building with meson over
time, so if you need to do work to improve xz support in your build systems
and tools, you should consider that.  (One of the goals of the recent walk
over the modules I've been doing is to set up at least basic CI builds, so
that we can have a little more confidence when adding meson builds to those
modules.)

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