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Subject: Re: release checksum issue related to xdelta file,
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Joe Wells wrote:

> I'm not sure what the solution to this is.

Consign xdeltas to history, offer bzip2 (cue emails about lzma) and
gzip downloads, move on?

A random perusal of a few directories on ftp.gnu.org/gnu doesn't show
a single one offering xdeltas, except emacs.