Bug 270904 - KDE should provide .tar.xz source tarballs
Summary: KDE should provide .tar.xz source tarballs
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: www.kde.org
Classification: Websites
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kde-www mailing-list
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Reported: 2011-04-14 01:26 UTC by hanno
Modified: 2011-04-19 21:27 UTC (History)
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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