xz for the new release tip

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:28:57PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while currently the sources are release both as .tar.gz and as .tar.bz2 would
> not it be worth to start using .xz as a replacement for the .bz2 variant?
> 
> 13406892 bytes: gdb-6.8.91.20090930.tar.xz  (xz -9)
> xz -dc:    real	0m1.226s user	0m1.190s sys	0m0.037s
> 
> 18453837 bytes: gdb-6.8.91.20090930.tar.bz2
> bzip2 -dc: real	0m3.775s user	0m3.755s sys	0m0.019s

I think that fails any 'widely available' test - I can't even find a
Debian package of it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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