packages compressed with xz

[Mark Linimon]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:40:33AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Yes, would be nice.  I doubt it will happen soon.

It's actually being looked at.

As part of the extensive rework of the pointyhat scripts I did this
summer, I attempted to factor out all the magic constants, including
the definition of PKGSUFFIX.

There are some other bugs that need to be fixed (having to deal with
INDEX and duds) before we can get to this, however.

mcl