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Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats



On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:12 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote:
[snip]
> The transition itself would go completly unadministered. Once dpkg is
> switched to default to a different compression all freshly build
> packages use it and the archive transitions itself over time.

Because a .deb would "know" whether it is compressed or not, and
dpkg would dynamically determine whether it needed to decompress
or not?

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