Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages
Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> I suppose we should always be sympathetic towards such architectures, but at
> the end of the day we should primarily concern ourselves with release
> architectures.
Such as mips?
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Christian Kastner wrote:
> That is the key question, and I believe considering the worst possible
> cost -- a package that cannot be unpacked, as in #757740 -- the
> trade-off is not worth it.
IIRC, I asked last year already to patch dpkg to limit the
xz compression levels to -7 (and treat -8 and -9 as -7).
That was per-arch and mostly with buildd concerns, but this
bugreport shows that it’s high time we do that, as those
little 64 MiB RAM machines are available for a release
architecture (probably several).
Guillem, would you do that?
bye,
//mirabilos
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