[arch-general] Adopt tar.xz for official repo packaging ?

[Pierre Schmitz]

On Friday 03 July 2009 15:28:22 Nathan K. Bathory wrote:
> read through the archived posts, i'm sure this was discussed already ..
> iirc the issue was with implementing this in libarchive and some
> licensing issues.

pacman can already handle xz compressed packages (using libarchive). Support 
for makepkg will be available with pacman 3.3. (which does not mean we will 
use it though)

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Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre