On 2017-07-31 05:29, Niels Thykier wrote: > 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. :)
Noawadays, system installed with d-i won't work with less than about 160MB of memory. So I guess this should not be an issue to just build udeb packages the same ways than deb packages. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
