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| author | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-10-01 14:25:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> | 2011-10-01 17:50:32 +0200 |
| commit | e1c589ecd56a8ef89d1250d2e81de8847e97c69c (patch) | |
| tree | 48302c8d45fa71fc7457b39a0a1e427d9c0799fa /NEWS | |
| parent | 28460826d3aa61aadd2db3acc9c63e50ce35b469 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-e1c589ecd56a8ef89d1250d2e81de8847e97c69c.tar.xz | |
build: stop distributing gzip'd releases; xz is enough
* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Add no-dist-gzip.
* NEWS (Build-related): Mention that we're dropping .tar.gz.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- it is handling (SIGTERM, SIGINT, ...). This is to support systems that implicitly create threads for some timer functions (like GNU/kFreeBSD). +** Build-related + + "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files. + xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing + only .tar.xz files is enough. + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.13 (2011-09-08) [stable] |