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distribute xz-compressed tarballs, too?

From: Jim Meyering
Subject: distribute xz-compressed tarballs, too?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:47:28 +0200 
Hi Bruno,

Have you considered distributing xz-compressed tarballs for gettext?
They would be about half the size of the gzip-compressed ones:

    t=gettext-0.18.1.tar
    $ gzip -dc $t.gz > $t && xz -9e $t && du -sh $t.?z
    15M     gettext-0.18.1.tar.gz
    7.5M    gettext-0.18.1.tar.xz
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