On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:04:51PM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > * 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
Adding bzip2 support to my script and re-running gives me Total size of *.gz files in /usr/share/doc converted into *.bz2: 135179633 In other words, it's 130 MiB against xz's 134 MiB. I'll leave it to others to decide if it's a significatn difference. -- Freedom-based blog/wiki/web hosting: http://www.branchable.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110815212515.ga24...@havelock.liw.fi