[Releasing] Tarball distribution issue for the important releases

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 3 de setembro de 2012 12.00.35, jan-arve.saether at nokia.com 
wrote:
> 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.

.7z is even smaller than .tar.xz., somehow.

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