Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:51:29 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "J.H." <warthog9@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, mirrors@kernel.org,
       users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" <ftpadmin@kernel.org>,
       lasse.collin@tukaani.org
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion
Message-ID: <20100211205129.GA26105@elf.ucw.cz>
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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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