tar.xz packages?

[Corinna Vinschen]

Hi guys,


I'm not quite sure, but isn't it right that setup is capable of handling
xz compressed tar files in the meantime?  Chris, does upset handle them
as well?

If so, shouldn't we start to switch to .tar.xz files?  As far as I
understand from a discussion on the gdb list (the discussion has gone
awry but that doesn't change the facts), the file size goes down and
uncompressing with xz is faster than uncompressing with bzip2.  That
would help to speed up installation and update a bit, faster download,
faster uncompression.


Corinna

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