Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving

Re:Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving by jl6 on Saturday October 22, 2016 @03:04PM (#12770079)

Were there many prominent open source projects using the LZMA format before the creation of xz? Debian, for example (which is where this particular flamefest originates), adopted[0] xz the year following the stable v5.0.0 of XZ-Utils[1].

My impression was that the whole 7zip->p7zip->lzma_alone->xz journey was concluded before any "xz hype" began.

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/08/msg00...

[1] http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD

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Re:Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving by saurik on Monday October 24, 2016 @03:12PM (#12781864)

I don't quite understand the timeline you are drawing here but the Debian Package Manager is a perfect example of a prominent open source project which used the LZMA format before the creation of xz. They recently shifted to "deprecate" the LZMA format, a change which I have removed from the negligible fork of dpkg I ship to the tens of millions of people running Cydia.

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