data.tar.xz support added to Launchpad

[Scott Ritchie]

On 10/26/2011 12:45 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
> 

If you're not going to lintian it, a periodic archive scan/report
somewhere would be appreciated.  In fact we may as well do one soon.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie