From: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [iptables PATCH 08/11] Makefile: Generate .tar.bz2 archive with 'make dist'
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 21:55:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5D90jEMuoGhuiSx@orbyte.nwl.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1845617o-3434-5r8r-o0p8-sp96q83rno51@vanv.qr>
On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 08:13:56PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 2022-12-07 19:56, Phil Sutter wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >| 984K iptables-1.8.8.tar.gz
> >| 772K iptables-1.8.8.tar.bz2
> >| 636K iptables-1.8.8.tar.xz
> >
> >Moving to LZMA is trivial from a Makefile's point of view, but
> >most packagers will have extra work adjusting for the new file name
>
> How hard could it be? Surely they'll manage to change _three
> characters_ (or perhaps even ten, to manually run /usr/bin/<thing> if
> there's no suffix autodetection) in their build recipe, right?
Hey, if we're discussing almost negligible size reduction, I want to
discuss almost negligible extra effort, too! :D
Pablo, you're doing the legwork when it comes to releases, what's your
opinion?
Cheers, Phil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-07 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-07 17:44 [iptables PATCH 00/11] Support 'make dist' and 'make check' Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 01/11] Drop INCOMPATIBILITIES file Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 02/11] Drop libiptc/linux_stddef.h Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 03/11] Makefile: Generate ip6tables man pages on the fly Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 18:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-07 18:48 ` Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 04/11] extensions: Makefile: Merge initext targets Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 05/11] iptables/Makefile: Reorg variable assignments Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 06/11] iptables/Makefile: Split nft-variant man page list Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 07/11] Makefile: Fix for 'make distcheck' Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 08/11] Makefile: Generate .tar.bz2 archive with 'make dist' Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 18:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-07 18:56 ` Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 19:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-07 20:55 ` Phil Sutter [this message]
2022-12-07 21:35 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 09/11] include/Makefile: xtables-version.h is generated Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 10/11] tests: Adjust testsuite return codes to automake guidelines Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 11/11] Makefile.am: Integrate testsuites Phil Sutter
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