From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:51:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: maint: distribute .xz tarballs, not .bz2 ones
X-Git-Tag: v1.11.2b~18^2~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f75e3bf59e5c117a4159e523fcc9a837fe278618;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git

maint: distribute .xz tarballs, not .bz2 ones

Many GNU packages are moving towards xz-compressed tarballs, so
let's follow suit, by dropping the creation and distribution of
a bzip2-compressed tarball and switching to xz instead.
For compatibility and safeness, we will continue to create and
distribute a gzip-compressed tarball as well.

* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Drop `dist-bzip2', add
`dist-xz'.
* NEWS: Update.

Suggested by Jim Meyering.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 007591dae..5646f7958 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+2011-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+	maint: distribute .xz tarballs, not .bz2 ones
+	Many GNU packages are moving towards xz-compressed tarballs, so
+	let's follow suit, by dropping the creation and distribution of
+	a bzip2-compressed tarball and switching to xz instead.
+	For compatibility and safeness, we will continue to create and
+	distribute a gzip-compressed tarball as well.
+	* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Drop `dist-bzip2', add
+	`dist-xz'.
+	* NEWS: Update
+	Suggested by Jim Meyering.
+
 2011-12-22  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
 	include: avoid "deleted .am file" problem
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ec4ab40b9..a16214026 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ New in 1.11.0a:
 
 * Miscellaneous changes:
 
+  - Automake is now distributed as a gzip-compressed and an xz-compressed
+    tarball.  Previously, bzip2 was used instead of xz.
+
   - The last relics of Python 1.5 support have been removed from the
     AM_PATH_PYTHON macro.
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d8af40750..1ae68c581 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ AC_SUBST([am_AUTORECONF], ["${AUTORECONF-autoreconf}"])
 AC_SUBST([am_AUTOHEADER], ["${AUTOHEADER-autoheader}"])
 AC_SUBST([am_AUTOUPDATE], ["${AUTOUPDATE-autoupdate}"])
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10a dist-bzip2 filename-length-max=99 color-tests parallel-tests])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.10a dist-xz filename-length-max=99 color-tests parallel-tests])
 
 # The API version is the base version.  We must guarantee
 # compatibility for all releases with the same API version.