* Lars Wirzenius [2011-08-15 18:33 +0100]:
> raw gz xz
> 584 163 134 file sizes (MiB)
> 0 421 450 savings compared to raw (MiB)
> -421 0 29 savings compared to current gz (MiB)
Years ago I compared sizes of compressed files in /usr/share/doc using
different compression methods too, possibly restricting to specific file
types (for example changelog and copyright).
> I'm OK with allowing use of xz for compressing the files.
IIRC bzip2 had a better compression. Compressing dpkg's changelog on
stable seems confirm this:
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/dpkg/changelog.gz | bzip2 | wc -c
145586
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/dpkg/changelog.gz | xz | wc -c
167844
Regards
Carsten
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