James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be > > appropriate, though? > > By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to use pristine > upstream source (since the vast majority of source stills comes in > .tar.gz form).
Upstream authors might choose to release upstream source compressed by bzip2. So bzip2 compression should be a valid option for source archives. IMHO the "pristine" property is more importent than the compression ratio. If a choice between pristine gzipped and re-compressed bzip2ed has to be made, I'd vote for the pristine way. We already could pack the diffs with bzip2. In order to avoid a long debate I computed the space savings (for hamm/main): (in KBytes) gzipped: 17208 uncompressed: 76953 bzip2ed: 14911 IMHO *this* space saving doesn't suggest to use bzip2 for diff2. Sven -- Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sax.de/~sr1/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]