> On 8 Nov 2022, at 07:35, Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> On master at 9db716e3b15912b7162def1faa704eb7823bbf34:
> .rw-r--r--  406M sam   8 Nov 07:27   libabigail-2.2.tar.gz
> .rw-r--r--  348M sam   8 Nov 07:26   libabigail-2.2.tar.xz
> 
> xz is quite a common format for software to be distributed
> in nowadays because of its size reductions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
> ---
> ChangeLog    | 8 ++++++++
> Makefile.am  | 4 ++--
> configure.ac | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index 33944561..f7f8d6f8 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
> +2022-11-08  Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
> +
> +       build: Create an xz distribution tarball in addition to gzip.
> +
> +       * configure.ac: add dist-xz to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
> +       * Makefile.am: adjust $(TARBALL) to new extension.
> +       * Makefile.am: pass XZ_OPT="-0" for distcheck-fast.
> +
> 2022-09-24  Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com>
> 
> ir: Avoid cancelling a "confirmed" propagated canonical type
> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index 65a1b121..a0310368 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ check-valgrind-recursive:
> update-changelog:
> python $(srcdir)/gen-changelog.py > $(srcdir)/ChangeLog
> 
> -TARBALL = $(PACKAGE_NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.gz
> +TARBALL = $(PACKAGE_NAME)-$(VERSION).tar.xz
> RELEASED_BRANCH = master

I should've just changed this to take two so we keep gzip (as make
will produce one anyway), but I'll wait until feedback about if
we want to do this at all first.