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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 13:32:37
Message-Id: 482300F2.9030403@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:17:08 -0400
3 > Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> It's troubling to me that projects are using lzma when it's on disk
6 >> format isn't even final and the project has security issues.
7 >>
8 >
9 > You mean projects like 'GNU tar'?
10 >
11 >
12 As far as I know Ciaran, all GNU projects have switched or are in the
13 process of switching to lzma over bzip2. I believe the issue in question
14 which prompted this original e-mail was due to coreutils. But I could be
15 wrong.
16 --
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: lzma tarball usage Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>