Package: pkg-kde-tools
Version: 0.14.3
Severity: wishlist
As suggested on IRC, please consider using xz compression for the KDE SC
packages. It should shrink the size of binary packages noticable[1].
To switch to xz, just call dh_builddeb -- -Zxz instead of plain
dh_builddeb when using debhelper. If you care about (direct) upgrades
from Lenny[3], you should also add a Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~) to the
binary packages.
Note that xz compression must not be used for packages in the base
system (Priority: required and dependencies), but I guess no KDE package
should be in there.
Regards,
Ansgar
[1] A comparison of package size for Squeeze is available at [2]. The
format is <filename> <old-size> <size-with-xz> <xz-compared-to-old-in-%>.
[2] <http://people.debian.org/~ansgar/squeeze-with-xz.txt.gz>
[3] or from Ubuntu Lucid, but as Ubuntu already stopped importing packages
from Debian for their next LTS, this should not matter much any
longer.
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