Re: [iptables PATCH 08/11] Makefile: Generate .tar.bz2 archive with 'make dist'

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:55:46PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> 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?

Please, whoever feels like, go ahead and just send patches to generate
lzma files in userspace netfilter tree wide, I remember this was
discussed in the past.

Thanks.