diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e0996b3305b2d417b33a1fcaae437c33946616c6..292c7777a490de5dbd7373e23380f1d62e2097ab 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AC_INIT([xorg-docs],
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Makefile.am])
 
 # Initialize Automake
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-xz])
 
 # Require xorg-macros minimum of 1.12 for XORG_WITH_XSLTPROC
 m4_ifndef([XORG_MACROS_VERSION],