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Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2



On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 1:38 AM Adam Borowski wrote:

> Thus, even though we'd want to stick with xz for the official archive, speed
> gains from zstd are so massive that it's tempting to add support for it,
> at least for non-official uses, possibly also for common Build-Depends.

Could we use custom zstd dictionaries on a per-architecture basis to
further reduce the size of zstd packages, possibly allowing it to beat
xz?

-- 
bye,
pabs

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