On Tue 24 Mar 2026 at 18:36:37 (+0000), William Richards #SaveOurInternet wrote: > how big is the compression result/file size difference between XZ Utils's > first version and its latest version
How big is the result of compressing what? > and have you been planning to compress > sshd with liblzma and inject the liblzma library into the software when XZ > is updated enough I can't make sense of this. > or are packages compressed once with XZ and not again > even if XZ is updated? This appears to be the same question you asked a month ago: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2026/02/msg00422.html Recompressing an existing package just because the compression software was updated would be futile. Either the new compression product and the old one would be bit-identical (so why bother), or the new product would fail to match the old one's MD5sum and SHA256, which are written in the published Packages file. That failure would make the new product uninstallable. > I feel like I needed to make my question more clear and I'm trying to look > for a definitive answer Cheers, David.
