Re: Upcoming FTPMaster meeting

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp>]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 08:20:02 +0100
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> I have not seen any word about XZ support.
> 
> When you deployed support for new source package formats, you forbid
> lzma because xz was coming along and you mentioned that wheezy could have 
> xz enabled.
> 
> I would like to see xz allowed both for source package and for binary
> packages.

 I want XZ support too, at least it reduce size for some font packages.
 e.g. 

$ ls -al otf-yozvox-yozfont*.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 31053028 2011-02-12 08:33 otf-yozvox-yozfont-antique_13.03-dfsg-1+xz_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 42877382 2011-02-12 08:46 otf-yozvox-yozfont-antique_13.03-dfsg-1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 20955718 2011-02-12 08:35 otf-yozvox-yozfont-cute_13.03-dfsg-1+xz_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 29832102 2011-02-12 08:47 otf-yozvox-yozfont-cute_13.03-dfsg-1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 21121674 2011-02-12 08:37 otf-yozvox-yozfont-edu_13.03-dfsg-1+xz_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 30301632 2011-02-12 08:47 otf-yozvox-yozfont-edu_13.03-dfsg-1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 21234852 2011-02-12 08:27 otf-yozvox-yozfont-new-kana_13.03-dfsg-1+xz_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 30294686 2011-02-12 08:45 otf-yozvox-yozfont-new-kana_13.03-dfsg-1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 31286774 2011-02-12 08:30 otf-yozvox-yozfont-standard-kana_13.03-dfsg-1+xz_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich 42864814 2011-02-12 08:46 otf-yozvox-yozfont-standard-kana_13.03-dfsg-1_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich     4642 2011-02-12 08:25 otf-yozvox-yozfont_13.03-dfsg-1+xz_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 henrich henrich     4872 2011-02-12 08:45 otf-yozvox-yozfont_13.03-dfsg-1_all.deb

 2/3 size, extremely efficient :)


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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane