Bug 270904

Summary:	KDE should provide .tar.xz source tarballs
Product:	[Websites] www.kde.org	Reporter:	hanno
Component:	general	Assignee:	kde-www mailing-list <kde-www>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description hanno 2011-04-14 01:26:14 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

xz is an improved compression format to be used in combination with tar. It has significantly better compression ratio than bz2. It is slower in packing, but slightly faster than bz2 in unpacking. Recent tar versions support xz directly through the -J parameter.

For backwards compatibility, bz2 tarballs are probably still needed, but xz tarballs could be provided as a more modern alternative.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2011-04-19 21:27:18 UTC

The KDE WWW team does not release the tarballs. To contact the KDE release team, please write to the release-team mailing list via https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team