Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote: > On Sunday 15 November 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> dpkg v3 source format, compression [...] > Is there a policy for the use of bzip2?
> As discussed earlier bzip2 is *much* slower that gzip and really hurts on > slower arches and systems, so I'd suggest that - especially for binary > packages - gzip should remain the default for all normal cases and bzip2 > should reserved for cases where there is a really significant size > decrease. ... or where upstream only offers tar.bz2. FWIW dpkg does the smart thing by default. It uses gzip (both for the debian packages and and debian.tar) but searches for both foo_42.orig.tar.bz2 and .gz. Explicitely passing an option is required to get bz2 compression for binary packages and/or debian.tar. cu and- happliy using v3 for gnutls -reas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org