Dear all, I forward you these news from the FTP team. Given the size of many of our packages, I recommend to use xz compression as much as possible. This includes all our get-orig-source scripts: when we repack, there is no need to stick to upstream's compression system.
Have a nice day, -- Charles ----- Forwarded message from Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> ----- Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:12:36 +0200 From: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: The archive now supports xz compression Message-ID: <[email protected]> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Hi, The archive software now accepts packages using xz for compression in addition to gzip and bzip2 for both source and binary packages. Please remember that packages in the base system[1] (and dependencies) *must* currently use gzip as otherwise debootstrap will be unable to install a system. Additionally please only use xz (or bzip2 for that matter) if your package really profits from its usage (for example, it provides a significant space saving). While those methods may compress better they often use more CPU time to do so and a very small decrease in package size is hardly worth the extra effort placed on slower systems. Think of both user systems and the Debian buildds which will waste more time - an especially bad problem on slower architectures. Regards, Ansgar, for the FTP Team 1: Meaning everything with Priority: required. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
