On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Drew Parsons wrote: > Do we have plans for lenny to enable the use of bzip2 instead of gzip > for the upstream orig.tar source tarballs? Does dpkg/apt support this > already or has this already been thought about? > > This would reduce our archive size by some 20% if all packages moved to > bzip2.
With consequent increase in CPU time to compress and extract the packages. A more compelling reason is that some upstreams only distribute in bz2, and this would enable us to distribute the actual upstream version without repacking. Presumably the wig-and-pen source format will (eventually?) support this? Don Armstrong -- Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once enough people do that, then there'll be no legitimate reason left for anyone to run an SMTP server, and the spam problem will be solved. -- Craig Dickson in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
