On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 at 13:09:03 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote: > > * compression of content > > > > Any policy to enforce compressed file formats regarding the stuff > > installed > > by a data package? > > I think this ought to be case-by-case: some users of large data blobs > (e.g. Quake 3/Openarena PK3 files) already support compression, but if the > application that uses the data will be mmap()ing it, compression isn't > really feasible. > > .deb files are compressed anyway, unless you go to some effort to turn > that off, so space consumption on mirrors should be about the same either way.
That is correct, but I was more aiming at rules we have to compress some portions of installed files (e.g. dh_compress). Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100930170823.ga24...@meiner
