Plan for release 2.29 [and IMPORTANT message]

[Tristan Gingold]

On 20/06/2017 15:00, Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 20.06.2017 09:44, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to create the release 2.29 branch at the end of June (next week) and to
>> create the release around July 15th (so slightly earlier than initially planned).
>>
>> As usual, if you have big pending patches, please tell us ASAP.
>
> gdb already uses xz compression for it's release tarballs and compressed diffs.
> GCC was also changed to xz compressed tarballs instead of bz2, but keeping gz
> compressed tarballs.  Could the same be done for binutils?

Why not.

>
> Matthias
>