Re: bz2 release tarballs

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 13 August 2007, Karl Berry wrote:
>     would it be possible to see .tar.bz2 releases of gzip ?  not for the
>     "gzip vs bzip2" debate, but for the case where gzip is broken on a
>     system :)
>
> That's why there is a plain .tar available (e.g.,
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.12.tar).  The few extra bytes of
> download don't seem too important for such a rare occasion ...

while i hadnt noticed that, i'd still ask for a .tar.bz2 ... i'd like to use 
in Gentoo where such an issue would be transparent ...
-mike

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