Re: bzip2 for source packages?
James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk> writes:
> Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@law.miami.edu> writes:
>
> > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be
> > appropriate, though?
>
> By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to use pristine
> upstream source (since the vast majority of source stills comes in
> .tar.gz form).
Upstream authors might choose to release upstream source compressed by
bzip2. So bzip2 compression should be a valid option for source
archives.
IMHO the "pristine" property is more importent than the compression
ratio. If a choice between pristine gzipped and re-compressed bzip2ed
has to be made, I'd vote for the pristine way.
We already could pack the diffs with bzip2. In order to avoid a long
debate I computed the space savings (for hamm/main):
(in KBytes)
gzipped: 17208
uncompressed: 76953
bzip2ed: 14911
IMHO *this* space saving doesn't suggest to use bzip2 for diff2.
Sven
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