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Bug#683299: unblock: open-vm-tools/2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-3



On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 03:47:42PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 07/31/2012 03:41 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Which is particularly important for this package because...?  And using
> > the -9 option (which is recommended against by the xz documentation)
> > because...?
> i'm definitely not going to re-iterate what all the people said about
> using xz compression, feel free to watch the debconf talk and look at
> the various threads on the debian mailinglists should you require more
> information why and how it's beneficial to use xz in debian.

To quote the manual page:

| For example, decompressing a file created with xz -9 currently requires
| 65 MiB of memory. 

I don't think that's agreed upon. If anything default options should be used.
But then Julien did ask you the question why it's needed and you avoided it.
That makes a useful discussion pretty hard.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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