[Debian-in-workers] Introducing xz compression for deb

Muneeb Shaikh iammuneeb at gmail.com
Sat Jun 23 10:03:08 UTC 2012


On 06/23/2012 01:05 AM, Vasudev Kamath wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
Hello!

<snip>

> 
> If you see any package in Debian-IN team as huge (according to Indian
> b/w) please consider using xz for that. If you are not developer then
> please point us out.
> 

Good move. It would certainly save some b/w. I think festival
packages[0-2] (the diphone databases to be specific) should be the next
ones to have this change.

[0] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/festvox-hi-nsk
[1] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/festvox-te-nsk
[2] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/festvox-mr-nsk

-- Muneeb Shaikh



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