Julian Andres Klode wrote: > The problem is that future changes might change the format in ways that > can still be read by older xz versions, but are not byte identical with > them. This is one thing that makes it hard to have an --rsyncable option > in xz [1] and probably also makes it complicated to support for > pristine-tar.
This could happen with gzip too (in fact, it recently *did* happen with gzip --rsyncable). This can be dealt with if it doesn't happen too often by embedding the old version. > You'll be able to use tarballs from gnome.org once gnome.org starts with > shipping only .xz tarballs [2]. This will be a sorta large corpus, but probably not a very diverse one. -- see shy jo
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