[ansgar@debian.org: The archive now supports xz compression]
Dear all,
I forward you these news from the FTP team. Given the size of many of our
packages, I recommend to use xz compression as much as possible. This includes
all our get-orig-source scripts: when we repack, there is no need to stick to
upstream's compression system.
Have a nice day,
-- Charles
----- Forwarded message from Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> -----
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:12:36 +0200
From: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
To: debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: The archive now supports xz compression
Message-ID: <877h6kasnv.fsf@deep-thought.43-1.org>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux)
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.
----- End forwarded message -----
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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