From dcbd0b26eddf15b6dff4e00dc10d53c007cfc342 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 21:00:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] maint: Drop xz tarballs to reduce maintainer QA

* configure.ac (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Remove dist-xz.
* README-alpha: Don't mention xz.
* bootstrap.conf (buildreq): Drop xz.
---
 README-alpha   | 1 -
 bootstrap.conf | 1 -
 configure.ac   | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README-alpha b/README-alpha
index 9f54c31d..3532ff08 100644
--- a/README-alpha
+++ b/README-alpha
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ you have the latest stable version.
 - Texinfo <https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo>
 - help2man <https://www.gnu.org/software/help2man>
 - ncurses <https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/> (optional, for talk)
-- xz <https://tukaani.org/xz/> (for 'make dist')
 - Texlive & epsf <http://www.tug.org/texlive/> (for 'make dist')
 
 * Building
diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf
index 8c82876c..a02b35ba 100644
--- a/bootstrap.conf
+++ b/bootstrap.conf
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ m4         -
 makeinfo   -
 help2man   -
 gzip	   -
-xz	   -
 "
 
 checkout_only_file=README-alpha
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 537908cc..719d9793 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h:config.hin])
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 dist-xz tar-ustar -Wall -Werror])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.11.1 tar-ustar -Wall -Werror])
 
 # For now, we always use libexecdir; later we may want to vary where
 # the daemons go.