Hi! On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 17:23:46 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.45 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch
> as not known to everybody, xz's higher compression levels have - > besides improving compression of big files - the side effect of taking > a lot of memory for the dictionary, even when unpacking. There is > however no sense in using a compression level that (roughly) takes > more DictSize than the size of the uncompressed file. [1] has a > discussion on this, Thanks for filing this, I had it on my TODO after I posted it on debian-devel in 2014! Something else I don't have to do. :) <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/09/msg00013.html> > | $ ar x traceroute_1%3a2.0.20-2+b1_armel.deb data.tar.xz > | $ xz --list --verbose --verbose data.tar.xz > | (...) > | Compressed size: 47,9 KiB (49.056 B) > | Uncompressed size: 130,0 KiB (133.120 B) > | (...) > | Memory needed: 65 MiB > | (...) As mentioned on that thread, you might want to use --robot which is the supported interface for other tools to use. Thanks, Guillem
