Bug#652636: dpkg-dev - Uses, or at least documents, xz -6 by default

2011-12-31 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Related to this: dpkg-deb: error: invalid integer for -z: '2e' It’s currently not possible to use xz’s Extreme compression levels with dpkg-deb, which I consider very useful, as shown in my other mail to this bugreport. bye, //mirabilos -- Using Lynx is like wearing a really good pair of

Bug#652636: dpkg-dev - Uses, or at least documents, xz -6 by default

2011-12-31 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 18:10:46 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: dpkg-deb: error: invalid integer for -z: '2e' It’s currently not possible to use xz’s Extreme compression levels with dpkg-deb, which I consider very useful, as shown in my other mail to this bugreport.

Bug#652636: dpkg-dev - Uses, or at least documents, xz -6 by default

2011-12-19 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.1.2 Severity: normal dpkg-deb uses the -6 preset of xz by default, or at least documents it this way. According to xz(1), this mode needs 9MiB of memory for decompression (and 94MiB for compression). This should be no problem for most mainstream arches. However

Bug#652636: dpkg-dev - Uses, or at least documents, xz -6 by default

2011-12-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello Bastian, On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Bastian Blank wrote: dpkg-deb uses the -6 preset of xz by default, or at least documents it this way. According to xz(1), this mode needs 9MiB of memory for decompression (and 94MiB for compression). This should be no problem for most mainstream arches.

Bug#652636: dpkg-dev - Uses, or at least documents, xz -6 by default

2011-12-19 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Bastian Blank dixit: I think it may be a good idea to only use -3 for this arches. This I've also seen good results for -2e. It may well be worth the overhead of -e, while reducing from -3 to -2 so it can be de- compressed even quicker and with half the RAM use. Question, is the increasement in