On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:01:21PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: >Hi! > >On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 17:19:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> CD sizing problems >> ================== > >> There has been much discussion about switching packages over to using >> xz compression instead of gzip by default, including Hideki Yamane's >> excellent session "Let's shrink Debian package archive!" [3]. Ansgar >> has been looking into the possibilities here of re-building a subset >> of the core packages using xz, and I think it's clear that this is the >> solution for Wheezy at least. In discussion after Hideki's xz talk, I >> think there was broad agreement that we should just switch to xz by >> default, *but* with the option to use a different (or even null) >> compressor where it makes sense (e.g. in packages full of >> already-compressed files such as open-clipart). There has been a >> suggestion that we should leave base packages using gzip for the sake >> of foreign users of debootstrap, but I firmly believe we should just >> tell them they'll need xz in future. Let's not hold ourself back >> here... > >I cooked a patch for dpkg several weeks ago, when this got discussed >in debian-devel, to add configurable default compressor at dpkg build >time and to switch it to xz for Debian, including updated documentation, >etc. So if there's agreement, and the release team would accept this >change, then I can quickly prepare such dpkg upload.
Let's ask the RT then... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "This dress doesn't reverse." -- Alden Spiess -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120720230315.gf...@einval.com
