Re: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 05:12:15PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> We are building a binary distribution which main characteristic is to have the
> packages built _rarely_. As such, a useful but CPU-expensive operation is
> always worth it.
The situation is slightly different for Debian-native packages. In that case,
there's little value in not replacing the source PNGs with better-compressed
alternatives. (games-thumbnails is such a native package.)
> And if the package building infrastructure comes in your way by enforcing
> unneeded repeated builds, then the problem resides in the package building
> infrastructure.
Are we not required to provide a functional 'clean' target in our rules files?
Should these not remove files that were generated as part of the build process?
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