Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org> writes:

> Gzip is ok, but many packages these days use xz -9 --extreme deb options
> which is not fast at all on my pandaboard nor on my cloud instances with
> capped CPU & memory.  Using such compression is good for release debs,
> but not in developer testing. It wastes developer's time.

Oh, okay.  It would actually be much easier to standardize a way to switch
to gzip compression than it would be to add a new concept of uncompressed
packages.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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