Feature added by: Ruediger Meier (rudi_m) Feature #312439, revision 1 Title: spec files should support xz compressed sources per default openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ruediger Meier (rudi_m) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think it's always good to hype xz compression, so doing it here for the build system. It should be possible to use xz compressed tar balls like bz2 or gz without having "BuildRequires xz" in every spec file. Also would be nice to add a note to the packaging guidelines that xz is the preferred compression over bz2 and gz. Maybe this way xz could slowly replace gz and bz2 as default compression for package sources. Todo: We need to add xz dependency to openSUSE:Factory's prjconf (and other projects?) and update some (meta) packages, like build, ... Don't know exactly the places where to change it globally. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: 1. faster decompression than bz2 - less load on build servers 2. better compression ratio - less traffic / more speed when using osc commit, checkout, update, ... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312439