On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 00:44:30 +0300 Adrian Bunk <b...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: debhelper > Version: 10.2.5 > Severity: normal > > Following up on an observation I made in #868674: > > udebs are currently compressed with "xz -1 -extreme", > while normal packages are compressed with "xz -6". > > "xz -1" requires 2 MiB memory for decompression and > "xz -6" requires 9 MiB memory for decompression. > > Is there any situation left where these 7 MiB difference still matter? > > Is there is no situation left where 9 MiB memory usage for > decompression are a problem, then "xz -6 -extreme" would > be a better choice. > >
I think this is a question better asked in debian-boot. :) Thanks, ~Niels
