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Opened Jan 15, 2016 by Ben Gamari@bgamari🐢Maintainer

Drop bzip2 in favor of xz

In January 2016 it was proposed that we stop providing bzip2 tarballs, instead only offering xz-compressed tarballs. This ticket is to track this process.

Ben Gamari brought this proposal to the lists where there was no objection.

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Version 8.0.1-rc1
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Reference: ghc/ghc#11434