There are also Windows users, not only *nix users! So, please use a compression format that can be handled easily by Windows users as well. For instance, choose a format from the list that 7Zip can handle: http://www.7-zip.org/ Yes, I know, one can allways install yet again another program for one purpose only (http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html), but let's try to keep things simple. Cheers! Oscar van Vlijmen

----Origineel Bericht---- Van : eggert@cs.ucla.edu Datum : 22/08/2016 05:56 Aan : tz@iana.org Onderwerp : [tz] [PROPOSED PATCH 2/2] Use lz format for new tarball

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index 18b7c9d..61213b0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -33,13 +33,14 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes 'make check' now checks that zdump generates this output.

A new distribution format is available in the tarball - tzdb-VERSION.tar.gz and the signature tzdb-VERSION.tar.gz.asc. + tzdb-VERSION.tar.lz and the signature tzdb-VERSION.tar.lz.asc. The new tarball has the contents of tzcodeVERSION.tar.gz and tzdataVERSION.tar.gz, in a single top-level directory 'tzdb' with all other files under this directory, as is typical for software distributions. The new format is intended to replace the old tarball pair. The old format will continue to be distributed for - a while. + a while. The new format uses lzip compression, which is + significantly smaller than gzip and is simpler than xz.

Changes to documentation and commentary

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