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Makefile: release: use .tar.xz instead of .tar.bz2

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xz compresses better than bzip2, and is (getting) more popular, so build
release tarballs as .tar.xz (in addition to .tar.gz) instead of .tar.bz2,
similar to how the kernel did ~8 years ago:

https://www.kernel.org/happy-new-year-and-good-bye-bzip2.html

-rw-r--r-- 1 peko peko 5,1M Dec  2 17:55 buildroot-2021.11-rc3.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 peko peko 5,7M Nov 30 18:15 buildroot-2021.11-rc3.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 peko peko 6,8M Nov 30 18:15 buildroot-2021.11-rc3.tar.gz

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
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@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ release:
$(MAKE) O=$(OUT) distclean
tar rf $(OUT).tar $(OUT)
gzip -9 -c < $(OUT).tar > $(OUT).tar.gz
bzip2 -9 -c < $(OUT).tar > $(OUT).tar.bz2
xz -9 -c < $(OUT).tar > $(OUT).tar.xz
rm -rf $(OUT) $(OUT).tar
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