On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 03:33:42PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to me that xz compression has > > become the default in dpkg. With that in mind, won't this issue come up > > anyway? I mean, once a maintainer fixes a bug in a pckage and uplods it, > > the binries ill get xz compression. So this issue is in no way specific > > to making it a release goal. > > It's not only memory footprint. xz at default preset is more then 10 times > slower when > compressing then gzip and file is smaller <20%.
xz has slow compression, fast decompression. You're not really going to build packages on any box where compression speed is a blocker, and even if you do, actually building the package will take a wolf share of the time. On the other hand, quite a few users will _decompress_ stuff on terribly underpowered boxes, and xz shines there. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- 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/20131025135238.ga18...@angband.pl
