Ned Deily added the comment:
Thanks for the suggested patch. Distutils support for xz compression is the
subject of already open Issue16314. Perhaps you can review and/or comment on
the suggested patch there.
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nosy: +ned.deily
resolution: -> duplicate
stage: -> resolved
status: o
New submission from i01100101:
The Python standard library includes lzma and support for *tar.xz archives
since Python 3.3 but the distutils' 'sdist' command cannot output source
distributions as such tarball.
I suggest the changed version of distutils.archive_util module attached to this
issu
