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[Norbert Preining]

Hi

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018, texlive at schoepfer.info wrote:
> As a sidenote, maybe it's worth looking at lzip. It won't compress better,
> but it seems to be safer and therefor somehow better, see
> https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

Lots of statements, but not really convincing. Reading through the
linked Debian thread starting at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/06/msg00173.html
no conclusive answer is found.

The biggest critique is about data checking, which we do anyway after
download with separate sha256 hashes, so this is not an issue.

I agree that in principle a simpler format with only one container and
no nesting of containers and variety of filters would be nice, though.

But, it is c++ and although I don't know what level of it, supporting
lzip would mean building lzip utils on all our supported systems which
might be a pain.

Best

Norbert

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