Re: RFC: provide Packages.bz2 files

[Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:09:03PM -0400, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Just a thought - quick check:
> > 
> > 442132 Apr 13 21:46 ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages.bz2
> > 589652 Apr 13 21:45 ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages.gz
> > 
> > 
> > Allowing .bz2 here will save 25% of the time to get them by FTP !
> > If noone steps to implement this in dinstall and apt, I may even get
> > the source and do it myself !!
> > 
> 
> Look in the archives for the opinion on bz2.  On less than midrange
> pentiums bzip2 is quite slow.  100k is not much of a diff, even over
> my modem.

oh come on, i have used bz2 on my 50MHz 68030, and it worked just fine.

also notice that the opinion of previous mail in the list was about .deb
packages compressed with bz2, not the Packages file.

Friendly,

Sven LUTHER