On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 01:54:02PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: apt-cacher
> Version: 1.6.8
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> apt-cacher-cleanup.pl reads:
> 
>    387: my ($zip,$encoding) = ($name=~/bz2$/ ? ("bzip2","x-bzip2") : 
> ($name=~/gz$/ ? ("gzip -9nc","x-gzip") : "cat"));
>  
> The compression level -9 is overkill and too heavy for old hardware. A better 
> compression
> level would be -3. See effects of various compression levels e.g. at:

I believe this is set by Debian Policy. If apt-cacher uses a lesser
compression level, the generated files will not have the correct hashsum
and will be rejected by apt.

Mark



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