Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Feb 17 2010 - 00:59:41 EST


On 02/16/2010 09:40 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> This raises the point of the maturity of the tools BTW. GZ is mature,
> BZ2 has become mature over the years, XZ is very recent and may still
> be buggy at times. We'll only know that when people will complain that
> they cannot open one file from time to time.
>

This isn't a huge problem. Since it is generated content we can, if
necessary, run a robot over the archive and verify and regenerate files
that have problems.

-hpa
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