Compressing distribution tarballs for release with xz

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On lun., 2010-08-09 at 14:09 +0200, Nick Schermer wrote:
> That doesn't really matter I think, my whole point is: are our
> packages large enough to get a *real* benefit from xz, because not
> much is downloaded from the Xfce servers (ie. compared to
> distributions, who really benefit from xz compression). 

TBH, when Xfce only provided .bz2 files and Debian didn't accept them,
we retarballized everything in .tar.gz. Now that dpkg/dak and the whole
Debian infrastructure accepts .bz2, we're fine with that, but it won't
accept .orig.tar.xz right now, so we'll have to repackage that.

Ubuntu had the same problem with Launchpad, I think it accepts bz2 now,
not sure about xz. Not sure either for Red Hat/Fedora, Suse etc.
Basically I think it's still a bit soon for distros, so they shouldn't
be the main argument for changing, at least.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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