Re: wrong xdeltas for libtool

Scott James Remnant wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 16:55, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
>
> > The xdelta generation for libtool is severely broken!  Using xdelta
> > version 1.1.3 with
> >
> >  xdelta delta libtool-1.5.4.tar.gz libtool-1.5.6.tar.gz libtool.xdelta
> >
> > I get a file which is 7KByte big, not 2.4MByte!
>
> We pass --pristine to turn off the gzip decompression, don't know why,
> but we do :-)
>
> You're deltafying the actual tar files, we're deltafying the tar.gz
> file.

We need to change this or stop doing xdeltas altogether. They are almost the 
same size as the distribution.

Peter
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