> git-archive can gladly pipe its output tarball through a compression > filter of your choice.
Sure but that means running git locally, which makes for yet another dependency. If there is not interest on the sourceware.org side, I will probably maintain a github.com mirror so that a GZ or XZ can be pulled with a simple download. Of course if sourceware.org can do this directly and I am failing to see the buttons, I am all ears!
