Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.16.1.2
Severity: normal
dpkg-deb uses the -6 preset of xz by default, or at least documents it
this way. According to xz(1), this mode needs 9MiB of memory for
decompression (and 94MiB for compression).
This should be no problem for most mainstream arches. However for arches
like mips*, arm* and m68k, where a lot of systems out there only have
very limited memory, this may be a large burden.
I'd like to use xz for the Linux kernel packages. This saves 30% of size
with neglectable changes in decompression time.
I think it may be a good idea to only use -3 for this arches. This
reduces the memory requirements to 3 and 32MiB, while the result is
still 20% smaller then the package compressed with gz.
Bastian
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