[PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the gzip->xz release tarball switch

Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Dec 2014 22:01:27 -0800

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I should have included this NEWS update in
the corresponding configure.ac-changing commit:

0001-doc-NEWS-mention-the-gzip-xz-release-tarball-switch.patch (application/octet-stream, 1011 B)

From 38800587a95d1d74fb6dc9ce54722da5f0c88d0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 14:12:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the gzip->xz release tarball switch

* NEWS (Build-related): Mention that we are now distributing
only .tar.xz archives; no more gzip-compressed tarballs.
---
 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9456f34..19390a4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ GNU sed NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   is what stopped working. [bug introduced some time after sed-3.02 and
   prior to the first sed-4* test release]

+** Build-related
+
+  "make dist" now builds .tar.xz files, rather than .tar.gz ones.
+  xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing
+  only .tar.xz files is enough.  It has been fine for coreutils, grep,
+  diffutils and parted for a few years.
+

 * Noteworthy changes in release 4.2.2 (2012-12-22) [stable]

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2.1.2