Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Do we have plans for lenny to enable the use of bzip2 instead of gzip
> for the upstream orig.tar source tarballs? Does dpkg/apt support this
> already or has this already been thought about?
>
> This would reduce our archive size by some 20% if all packages moved to
> bzip2.
With consequent increase in CPU time to compress and extract the
packages.
A more compelling reason is that some upstreams only distribute in
bz2, and this would enable us to distribute the actual upstream
version without repacking.
Presumably the wig-and-pen source format will (eventually?) support
this?
Don Armstrong
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