Bug#1066828: xz-utils: worse compression ratio should be announced in NEWS.Debian

2024-03-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-03-14 00:35:53 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Since this affects what the user gets and is some kind of regression, > this should be announced in NEWS.Debian, IMHO. As an example of how this can affect the user, this introduced a serious bug in pristine-tar:

Bug#1066828: xz-utils: worse compression ratio should be announced in NEWS.Debian

2024-03-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: xz-utils Version: 5.6.0-0.2 Severity: wishlist After upgrading xz-utils from 5.4.5-0.3 to 5.6.0-0.2, the compression ratio with "xz -9" has decreased. For instance, on 3 files: Old 118822308 146463040 157197172 New 121120576 148930624 161255000 It took me some time to