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On 06/06/2012 03:46 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 6 June 2012 06:34, Saul Wold<sgw@linux.intel.com>  wrote:
>> Upstream Gnome projects are starting to migrate to the .xz compress format,
>> so we need to add this to allow recipes to override the default of .bz2 as
>> the upstreams make the transition.
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> Considering all future tarballs are going to be .xz, would it make
> sense to default to .xz and fix the recipes where there isn't a .xz?
>
I think until we get a predominant number of the gnome packages updated 
there is not much point in doing that as it would require extra recipe 
edits.  I think if we can do a batch update and then switch the default 
that would make more sense.  I will leave that up to the new gnome 
recipe maintainer Valentin.

Sau!

> Ross
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