Re: [FYI] {maint} maint: distribute .xz tarballs, not .bz2 ones

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 12/22/2011 08:37 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Many GNU packages are moving towards xz-compressed tarballs, so
> let's follow suit, by dropping the creation and distribution of
> a bzip2-compressed tarball and switching to xz instead.
> For compatibility and safeness, we will continue to create and
> distribute a gzip-compressed tarball as well.
> 
> * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Drop `dist-bzip2', add
> `dist-xz'.
> 
> Suggested by Jim Meyering.
> ---
>  ChangeLog    |   12 ++++++++++++
>  configure.ac |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index 007591d..8c9d5ea 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
>  2011-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
>  
> +     maint: distribute .xz tarballs, not .bz2 ones
> +     Many GNU packages are moving towards xz-compressed tarballs, so
> +     let's follow suit, by dropping the creation and distribution of
> +     a bzip2-compressed tarball and switching to xz instead.
> +     For compatibility and safeness, we will continue to create and
> +     distribute a gzip-compressed tarball as well.
> +     * configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Drop `dist-bzip2', add
> +     `dist-xz'.
> +     Suggested by Jim Meyering.
> +
> +2011-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <address@hidden>
> +
>       include: avoid "deleted .am file" problem
>       * automake.in (handle_configure): When processing `configure.am',
>       also expand `HAVE-MAKEFILE-IN-DEPS' to a boolean telling whether
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index d8af407..1ae68c5 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ AC_SUBST([am_AUTORECONF], ["${AUTORECONF-autoreconf}"])
>  AC_SUBST([am_AUTOHEADER], ["${AUTOHEADER-autoheader}"])
>  AC_SUBST([am_AUTOUPDATE], ["${AUTOUPDATE-autoupdate}"])
>  
> -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10a dist-bzip2 filename-length-max=99 color-tests 
> parallel-tests])
> +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10a dist-xz filename-length-max=99 color-tests 
> parallel-tests])
>  
>  # The API version is the base version.  We must guarantee
>  # compatibility for all releases with the same API version.
>

And consider the diff below squashed in as well.

Sorry for the noise,
  Stefano

-*-*-*-

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ec4ab40..a162140 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ New in 1.11.0a:

 * Miscellaneous changes:

+  - Automake is now distributed as a gzip-compressed and an xz-compressed
+    tarball.  Previously, bzip2 was used instead of xz.
+
   - The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the
     AM_PATH_PYTHON macro.