clone 683931 -1 retitle -1 Please use xz extreme compression severity -1 wishlist thanks Quoting shawn (shawnlandden@gmail.com): > xz's "extreme" compression option only changes the compressor, the > decompressor doesn't even know which level of compression the compressor > used. Using extreme compression speeds up decompression because the cpu > usage is roughly linear with compressed size. > > Using extreme compression uses more rigerous compression without raising > the size of the dictionary as using -7, -8, or -8 (64MB)--see xz(1) for > more info. Thanks for your explanations. I turn the wish to use extreme compression into another bug report, as the switch to xz has already been done. This will probably be made post-wheezy, unless the package size gain is interesting for CD images size shrinking.
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