Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages
On 09/04/2014 10:49, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> 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).
A per-arch limit would not address the problem with installing arch:all
packages.
Limiting the compression level to 7 by silently clamping higher values
is also not nice (IMO): it prevents people using very high compression
for internal packages.
What about a lintian warning (error, whatever) instead?
Ansgar
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