data.tar.xz support added to Launchpad

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Micah Gersten <micahg at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > It's a check on upload and not during the build would be my guess.  Maybe we
> > should add a lintian warning/error if it uses .xz debs w/out the
> 
> Speaking of Lintian warnings, would it make sense to have lintian
> duplicate the original .gz, compress with xz, check the difference and
> if it's greater than $threshold percentage, print a warning (or info)
> that using xz compression would save $some %?

We shouldn't actively promote xz like that until the need for the
Pre-Depends has gone away (i.e. after 12.04 LTS).

Furthermore, Lintian checks need to be reasonably quick or else people
will Ctrl-C it.  The above would be very slow on many packages.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]