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

[Xavier]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Andrei Thorp<garoth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Another possible issue is the question of whether this sort of
> compression works as well for the deltas system in pacman.

This only depends on the following trivial patch to xdelta3 (add xz support) :
http://code.google.com/p/xdelta/issues/detail?id=87

deltas are useless if the compression used is not recognized (and thus
without uncompress / recompress done automatically).