On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 06:48:57 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Hello, > > One of my co-maintainers for fonts changed the fonts-sil-abyssinica > package to use xz compression for *deb packages. > > Is it OK to upload the package with such change, d-i wise? This is the > only change along with the drop of an empty directory in the package > (cruft left from ttf-* -> fonts-* naming transition)? > > I think it should hurt and would indeed reduce the initrd size > slightly...as long as we do support xz uncompression in the D-I > initrd. > That doesn't make sense to me. If the udeb is part of the initrd it's already unpacked and the .udeb compression itself is not relevant. Am I missing something? Cheers, Julien
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