Re: [patch] build xz (instead of bz2) compressed tarballs and diffs

[Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com>]

On 18.05.2017 03:34, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> As discussed on IRC with Jakub and Richard here are is a small patch which
>> builds xz compressed tarballs and diff files.
>>
>> Tested with
>>
>>   maintainer-scripts/gcc_release \
>>         -s snap:trunk -p <old bz2 tarball> diffs sources tarfiles
>>   maintainer-scripts/gcc_release \
>>         -s snap:trunk -p <old xz tarball> diffs sources tarfiles
>>
>> and checked that the new tarball and diff files are compressed using xz.
>>
>> Ok for the trunk and the gcc-7-branch?
> 
> Ok.  The version on trunk can get the bz2 old-tar support removed after the next
> snapshot generation I  think.  Likewise the branch version after 7.2
> was released.

Looks like the copy of the script on gcc.gnu.org affects all active branches.
the May 23 GCC 5 snapshot was created successfully.  Is this acceptable? If yes,
then the patch should probably go to the 5 and 6 branches as well.

Please copy the script again to enable the xz --best compression.

Matthias