The lzip-compressed tarball is only 5% smaller than the xz-compressed tarball
since we added a customized am__tar variable on 2025-01-08. Not worth it.
* Admin/release-steps: Remove instruction for lzip.
If necessary, produce variants with higher compression (takes 7 minutes):
gzip -d -c < gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION.tar.gz | xz -c -e > gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION.tar.xz
- gzip -d -c < gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION.tar.gz | lzip -c -9 > gettext-$CURRENT_VERSION.tar.lz
Add a git tag (an annotated tag, not a lightweight tag):