On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 1:38 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:01:22AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I found this on HN today. While xz is not expressly being used within
> Fedora/Red Hat packaging in an archive context, it does seem to have
> quite a lot of other potential problems. But I have no idea what
> lurking liabilities zstd will have.
>
>
http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html
That page should be taken with a grain of salt. IIRC, it's was written
by some who wanted to push their own alternative version, and most of
the critique has been debunked.
It's a fair point. The HN comments from a year ago and also this week
get into some of that.