Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Changwoo Ryu wrote:

> As I said, such lowmem embeded devices don't even need to install big
> packages.

Just you saying so doesn’t make it (more) true. Debian is a
universal operating system… at least it tries to. Maybe one
of these packages contains _one_ file you need to build some
Teχ document, and your platform to do that is the smallest
GPLhost.fr server, which has a mere 128 MiB RAM, and which
would be perfectly fine doing just that. (Okay, bad example,
as it’s also HDD-size-constrained, but there’s always nbd
or other options to enlarge that, such as asking the owner.)

So please, do not outright dismiss scenarios you personally
cannot imagine.

Thanks.

bye,
//mirabilos
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