Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.va...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> This not-so-bad patch adds lzma compression support to the shutil functions, 
> under the 'xztar' name.  Please review.

Functionally, the patch looks good to me. There are some docstrings that
should probably be updated, though:

- _make_tarball (the 'compress' argument)
- make_archive
- _unpack_tarfile
- unpack_archive


> Ideally, tarfile should have an attribute to expose what compression formats 
> are available, then shutil would reuse that, and packaging would just call 
> shutil.

+1

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