[PATCH 2/2] release: use xz compression

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sat, Mar 23 2019, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On Tue 2019-03-19 07:08:19 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
>> This produces tarballs that are roughly 30% smaller.
>
> LGTM.  I can confirm that i'm seeing tarball sizes go from 924543 bytes
> (or 917179 bytes with gzip -9) to 644892 bytes with this xz approach.
>
> I think the ecosystem that notmuch targets *can* handle .xz these days,
> too.

Most probably!

Something related: any wisdom here:

https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

?

>   --dkg

Tomi