Steering committee, please, consider using lzip instead of xz

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Richard Biener wrote:
> While openSUSE has it, SLES does not.  tar support seems to be
> via calling the external lzip tool (failing if that is not available).

You mean SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is using a format that does not 
guarantee safe interoperability among implementations[1] to "power 
mission-critical workloads"!?

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html#fragmented


> The decision to use xz was largely due to availability.  If we use lzip
> and 80% of the users have to fall back to the .gz tarball that would
> be pointless.

For the case of SLES[2] I would say that avoiding xz is a must. IMHO 
SLES users are better served by falling back to the .gz tarball until 
the next major version of SLES is released than by suffering xz forever.

[2] http://www.suse.com/products/server/
"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 is a highly reliable, scalable and 
secure server operating system".


Best regards,
Antonio.