[Releasing] Tarball distribution issue for the important releases

[jan-arve.saether at nokia.com]

Hausmann Simon (Nokia-MP/Oslo) wrote on 2012-09-01:

> Hi,
> 
> I don't know the precise answer to your question but I am confident
> that a solution exists in OBS. Quoting from
> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tutorial :
> 
> "To add files via the command line, just cd into the new directory,
> copy the relevant files (typically a .tar.xz and support files)."
> 
> I believe Fedora supports xz, too.
> 
> Simon
>

Is there any reason to create .7z packages if we have .xz packages available?
The latest version of 7-zip can already uncompress .xz files.

Jan Arve