Meow! Because of the trimming changelogs discussion, I just wondered whether it'd be beneficial to switch compression from .gz to .zst (gzip to zstd).
Numbers I got from the desktop I sit at: * du of a copy of /usr/share/doc 366692 * rm ! -name "*.gz" 194184 * decompress 656852 * repack as zstd 163340 31MB saving, decent but not world shattering. Let's do so...? But then, I looked at /var/log * du 257612 * rm ! -name "*.gz" 53028 * decompress 471892 * repack as zstd 16360 Holy apt! Now this is a find! This box is a desktop thus doesn't produce a lot of logs (just sbuild spam), but there's quite a few of my boxen where logs get very bulky. Thus: let's switch logrotate from gzip to zstd? As changing the default would upset scripts, let's do it at the same time as enabling dateext... Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ You're alive. But that's just a phase. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀