[Mesa-dev] Finishing make distcheck

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:46:25 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:

> On 12/12/14 22:41, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 09:02:11 +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > 
> >>  * Don't ship anything but a tar.xz tarball.
> >> Linux, *BSD and WindowsXP+ have/ship programs that support the format
> >> for more than 5 years.
> >>
> > FWIW I'd appreciate if you kept the tar.gz.
> > 
> Can you please share what's the reason behind your request ?
> 
> Planning to send out "let's vote", and Cc a maintainer or two from the
> major 4-5 distros. Having some ideas why X or Y is desired/needed is
> always a plus.
> 
The traditional debian source package format only does gz, and the newer
format comes with other drawbacks that I'd rather avoid.  I could always
repack, but since I expect the cost of keeping gz to be close to 0, I
thought I'd ask.

Cheers,
Julien