Re: Switching away from XZ

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 12:17:14AM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Someone else came to the same conclusions as I, but hopefully wrote it down
> more understandable than me, as obviously I have failed to bring across the
> point given the respnses so far:

I am not sure what you suggest to do. Running sed from a script and
replacing all .tar.xz suffixes in pkgsrc makefiles obviously won't
work. It is not our choice how other projects package their sources.

Manually going through all packages using .tar.xz, checking if upstream
provides different compression formats (as some of them do) and
selecting a different one, testing and committing that change is
something that would work.

Arbitrarily declaring a new prefered format (like zstd) is nice but has no
practical effect, IMHO.

Martin