[2018-10-04 17:41] John MacFarlane <j...@berkeley.edu> > kact...@gnu.org writes: > > > We could generate packages with compressed binaries in a way, > > similar to *-dbg packages. All compiled languages, except C (Go, > > Rust, Haskell) would benefit, but it is quite a bit of work -- > > changes to debhelper and reprorepo, at least. > > Seems like it would be more sensible just to add an option to 'apt' to > compress the binaries.
Probably not: as submitter said, compressing pandoc takes around hour.
