Re: wrong xdeltas for libtool

[Werner LEMBERG]

> > The xdelta generation for libtool is severely broken!  Using xdelta
> > version 1.1.3 with
> > 
> >   xdelta delta libtool-1.5.4.tar.gz libtool-1.5.6.tar.gz libtool.xdelta
> > 
> > I get a file which is 7KByte big, not 2.4MByte!
> > 
> We pass --pristine to turn off the gzip decompression, don't know why,
> but we do :-)

But this is completely useless!  The very advantage of xdelta files is
the small size.  Who wants xdelta files as big as the new .tar.gz
file?

> You're deltafying the actual tar files, we're deltafying the tar.gz
> file.

???  You probably mean the opposite, don't you?


    Werner