Ralph Seichter <abbot@monksofcool.net> writes: > * David Bremner: > >> https://notmuchmail.org/releases/notmuch-0.29.tar.xz > > As the maintainer of Notmuch in MacPorts, I wonder why you chose to > switch from a classical tarball to a .tar.xz archive? Did I miss some > discussion on this mailing list? Yes, there was a brief discussion: id:20190319100819.17724-2-david@tethera.net The space savings have become more noticable as we include more test data in the release tarball. At a glance, about 15-20% of the upstream tarballs in Debian are xz compressed. Even allowing for overcounting of things like git snapshots, I guess xz compression is something packagers will have to deal with. d _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch