diff --git a/less.changes b/less.changes
index f1603f3..85cc4d4 100644
--- a/less.changes
+++ b/less.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Nov  4 09:56:02 UTC 2011 - puzel@suse.com
+
+- correctly recognize xz compressed data (bnc#728033)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jun 16 08:26:41 UTC 2011 - idonmez@novell.com
 
diff --git a/less.spec b/less.spec
index c57f818..33ad44a 100644
--- a/less.spec
+++ b/less.spec
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ Patch27:        %{name}-429-save_line_position.patch
 Patch28:        %{name}-429-more.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 
-
 %description
 less is a text file browser and pager similar to more. It allows
 backward as well as forward movement within a file. Also, less does not
@@ -75,7 +74,6 @@ chmod u+w *
 #
 cp %{S:1} %{S:2} %{S:3} %{S:4} .
 
-
 %build
 autoreconf -fiv
 %configure --with-pic
@@ -87,7 +85,6 @@ make mkhelp
 # build less
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
-
 %install
 make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/ install
 #
@@ -100,11 +97,9 @@ $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/lesskey -o $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/lesskey.bin $
 install -m 755 lessopen.sh lessclose.sh $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_bindir}
 %__chmod -x LICENSE COPYING NEWS README.SuSE
 
-
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
-
 %files
 %defattr(-, root, root)
 %doc LICENSE COPYING NEWS README.SuSE
@@ -112,6 +107,4 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 %config %{_sysconfdir}/*
 %{_bindir}/*
 
-
-
 %changelog
diff --git a/lessopen.sh b/lessopen.sh
index 34e552b..91156da 100644
--- a/lessopen.sh
+++ b/lessopen.sh
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ case ${type#"$SRC": } in
 		CMD="unzip -v" ;;
 	*"bzip"*" compressed data"*)
 		CMD="bzip2 -dc" ;;
-	*"xz compressed data"*)
+	*"xz compressed data"*|\
+	*"XZ compressed data"*)
 		CMD="xz -dc" ;;
 	*)
 		rm -f "$TMPF_pre"