[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially?

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> some of us already commit xz compressed packages, others don't. We didn't
> really decide on this yet.
>
> So, is there a reason not to recommond every TU and Dev to change PKGEXT to
> .pkg.tar.xz?
>
> We might also want to write a little announcement to inform users about this
> change. While most of them wont be affected, some would have to adjust their
> custom scripts. And for those who use netinstall on a 2009.02 or older iso
> would have to run pacman -Syu once to get a version of libarchive which is
> able to deal with xz.
>
> If wanted I also could add a check to devtools which issues a warning if xz is
> not used.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Pierre
>
> --
>
> Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
>

What about devs/tus who also maintain AUR packages? As I recall AUR
doesn't accept .tar.xz yet?