Compress the source tarball with XZ (LZMA)

This saves over 30% space from BZip2.

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index ba9b3968ecfab1d155c589eb2e03a937210af76e..3f610cab6467c2d9735530d0f904088adc118711 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = \
        1.11 \
        -Wall \
        check-news \
-       dist-bzip2 \
+       dist-xz \
        no-dist-gzip
 #      std-options
 

diff --git a/doc/release-howto.txt b/doc/release-howto.txt
index 5f3bc3f2a0a4ee6a8142fa5d4847b243e30e6097..3961380bb6b30a054d7a7d2c904bbb0343ca97df 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/release-howto.txt
+++ b/doc/release-howto.txt
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  * Tarballs (Use a clean tree !!!)
   - Use 'make distcheck' to make sure all files are exported
     correctly
-  - copy the tar.bz2 file on ftp.videolan.org in
+  - copy the tar.xz file on ftp.videolan.org in
     /opt/ftp/pub/videolan/testing/vlc-X.X.X/
   - generate SHA, MD5 hashes and OpenPGP signature of these files
     (use sha*sum --binary, md5sum --binary, gpg --sign --detach --armor)