From: Tom L. <tg...@ss...> - 2012-12-24 03:23:22
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Glenn Randers-Pehrson <gl...@gm...> writes: > I'm thinking of stopping making and distributing tar.bz2 files for libpng. > I believe they have been (or should be) overtaken by tar.xz. There are > still quite a few downloads of tar.bz2 but they might just be mirrors who > are copying all of the formats. We'd continue distributing tar.gz, tar.xz, > zip, and 7z. FWIW, I'm still using the bz2 version for Red Hat. The impression I have from working with Fedora packaging is that gz, bz2, and xz are the modern standards, with Windows-leaning upstreams sometimes providing zip. If there is an outlier here it's 7z. regards, tom lane |