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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:46:54 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, mirrors <mirrors@kernel.org>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
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> At some point it probably would make sense to start deprecating .gz
> format files from kernel.org.

Yay!

> Now, the questions that come up are:
> 
> i) Does this sound reasonable to everyone?  In particular, is there any
> loss in losing the "original" compressed files?

Can't see why ... the duplication seems rather silly.

> ii) Assuming a yes on the previous question, what time frame would it
> make sense for this changeover to happen over?

As soon as you can get the mirrors to change over?

M.
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