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DateThu, 11 Feb 2010 21:51:29 +0100
FromPavel Machek <>
SubjectRe: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion
Hi!

> Option 1)
>
> Leave gz as the master, and migrate bz2 to xz. This will happen in
> stages obviously. with bz2 ultimately being phased out.
>
> Migration option 1)
>
> All new content would be provided in .bz2 and .xz with
> an ultimate date set that the .bz2 files would stop
> being generated with new content. This would leave all
> existing content alone and it would not be a migration
> of the current .bz2 files to xz

I believe this is cleanest. gzip has performance advantages, and old
files suddenly disappearing would be just weird.

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