[PATCH] src-release.sh: Use -T0 for xz compression

Sam James sam@gentoo.org
Fri May 31 12:54:40 GMT 2024


Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
>> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>> Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 22:56:50 +0100
>> 
>> > On my machine (using 4 cores) this reduces the time to create
>> > binutils-2.42.50.tar.xz from 1 minute 40 seconds to 56 seconds.
>> >
>> > xz has supported -T0 since version 5.2.0 (released 2014-12-21).
>> 
>> LGTM and it's the default from >=5.6.0 anyway.
>
> The same 5.6.0 which introduced the backdoor?  How are its defaults
> relevant, when no one in their right mind will ever use those
> versions??

xz continues as a project after this incident and fixed releases were
issued 2 days ago. I'm not sure what your point is here.

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