I did some experimentation with my Wine package. Here's the filesize of the latest .deb passing different options to dpkg-deb:
11081456 default 10090930 bzip2 7682608 lzma That's over a 30% reduction in bandwidth for me and my humble third party repository. I've heard that lzma will be included by default in main for Hardy. This is a very good idea. Changing package build scripts to manually pass lzma compression using dh_builddeb -- -Z lzma would be very tedious, however. In IRC pitti proposed that we do this centrally - changing the default of dpkg-deb (currently gzip) seems to be the best place for this. Thoughts? Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
