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Re: Live filesystem on CDs



> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
> > Hmm, just an observation here.  (Not necessarily directed at you, Mike.)
> > Are *all* packages that are compressed with gzip compressed with gzip -9?
> > Including all .orig.tar.gz files, .diff.gz, etc.?  If not, this may be a
> > way to save some space for now.
> 
> The gzip call for these files is done by dpkg-source, so the gzip
> options are determined by dpkg-source and not by the developer.

Right, this is kinda what I'm getting at.  dpkg-source, debstd, etc. should 
all be using -9.

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