Hi, The archive software now accepts packages using xz for compression in addition to gzip and bzip2 for both source and binary packages. Please remember that packages in the base system[1] (and dependencies) *must* currently use gzip as otherwise debootstrap will be unable to install a system. Additionally please only use xz (or bzip2 for that matter) if your package really profits from its usage (for example, it provides a significant space saving). While those methods may compress better they often use more CPU time to do so and a very small decrease in package size is hardly worth the extra effort placed on slower systems. Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures. Regards, Ansgar, for the FTP Team 1: Meaning everything with Priority: required.
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