diff --git a/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst b/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst
index ce7a3e8d40..a898c0dd5e 100644
--- a/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst
+++ b/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ List of CPack DEB generator specific variables:
     Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm
 
   ``xz``
-    XZ Utils compression
+    XZ Utils LZMA2 (Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm, version 2) compression
 
   ``bzip2``
     bzip2 Burrows–Wheeler algorithm
diff --git a/Help/cpack_gen/rpm.rst b/Help/cpack_gen/rpm.rst
index 3583765b12..bd659b5a3f 100644
--- a/Help/cpack_gen/rpm.rst
+++ b/Help/cpack_gen/rpm.rst
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ List of CPack RPM generator specific variables:
     Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm
 
   ``xz``
-    XZ Utils compression
+    XZ Utils LZMA2 (Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm, version 2) compression
 
   ``bzip2``
     bzip2 Burrows–Wheeler algorithm
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
index 437440c140..d19ad007d9 100644
--- a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
@@ -1460,7 +1460,7 @@ Available commands are:
 
     .. versionadded:: 3.1
 
-    Compress the resulting archive with XZ.
+    Compress the resulting archive with XZ (LZMA2).
 
   .. option:: --zstd