[Python-modules-team] Bug#654651: basemap: please use xz compression

[Julian Taylor]

Package: basemap
Version: 1.0.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

compressing basemap with xz makes the package 30% smaller saving 30mb [0].
I think this is a significant enough saving to warrant the use of xz.

Attached a patch to do so [1]. On the next upstream release the orig
tarball could be re-compressed with xz too which also saves 30mb.


[0] orig (gz) -1, xz compressed -2:
7.0M ./python-mpltoolkits.basemap-doc_1.0.2-1_all.deb
664K ./python-mpltoolkits.basemap_1.0.2-1_amd64.deb
101M ./python-mpltoolkits.basemap-data_1.0.2-1_all.deb

293K ./python-mpltoolkits.basemap_1.0.2-2_amd64.deb
7.0M ./python-mpltoolkits.basemap-doc_1.0.2-2_all.deb
 71M ./python-mpltoolkits.basemap-data_1.0.2-2_all.deb

[1] The dpkg Predepends is needed for derivatives which have releases
with older dpkg versions.
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