xz is a lossless compression program and file format which incorporates the LZMA/LZMA2 compression algorithms.

Useful for:

• reading compressed debug info (external and compressed debug info #2300)
• potentially the package manager (package manager #943)
• potentially the glibc ABI info (support glibc version as part of the target #2847 (comment))

Related to:

• DEFLATE implementation (deflate implementation in standard library #213)