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Re: Using xz compression for initrd udebs?



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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