build: stop distributing gzip'd releases; xz is enough

[platform/upstream/coreutils.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f7b142b..f50e61a 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   it is handling (SIGTERM, SIGINT, ...).  This is to support systems that
   implicitly create threads for some timer functions (like GNU/kFreeBSD).
 
+** Build-related
+
+  "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files.
+  xz is portable enough and in wide-enough use that distributing
+  only .tar.xz files is enough.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.13 (2011-09-08) [stable]