Re: [PATCH v3] releases: use newer compression methods for tarballs

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 12.09.2025 23:23, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 11/09/2025 09:14, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Other projects have long switched to xz and/or lzip.
>>
>> Tidy things some as well: With the removal of qemu from the tarball,
>> intermediately extracting the tarball again has become wasteful. Drop
>> that. Invoke compressors using asynchronous lists, to reduce overall
>> latency. Drop the -v option from the (previously implicit) gzip
>> invocation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> I have tested manually the steps and the correct tarballs have been 
> produced. I will update my scripts to copy & sign all the tarballs once 
> this is merged.
> 
> Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> Is this intended for Xen 4.21?

So far it was, but I'm increasingly unsure, seeing that it still hasn't
gone in. Cc-ing Oleksii too now. Andrew had voiced concern towards the
rm use, but hasn't come back as to his argument towards the uncompressed
tarball previously not having been removed (when I can't see that one
would have been created in the first place), hence why I couldn't make
use of his (conditional) R-b.

Jan