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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">We’ve been asked by this correspondent to forward this request on to this list. In response to the original request we explained the lzip distribution is largely an amalgam of the gzip distributions,
and they indicated they still wanted gzip to be considered specifically to increase “availability for low end systems as lzip isn’t that widely supported”:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: Provide .tar.gz tarballs for tzdb<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 13:23:15 +0300<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">From: "Firas Khalil Khana" <firasuke@gmail.com><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">To: iana@iana.org<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Hey there,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">I've come to notice that both tzcode and tzdata have .tar.gz tarballs but tzdb only has .tar.lz (lzip) tarballs which isn't a commonly used format.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Would it be possible to provide gzipped tarballs for tzdb as well?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#AFABAB">Kim Davies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#AFABAB">VP, IANA Services, ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#AFABAB">President, PTI</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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