Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[JanC]

On 12/7/05, Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Original .deb:    18,025,624
> .tar.gz:          18,070,956
> .tar.bz2:         16,337,633
> .tar.7z:          12,631,291

Please also note that .7z is an archive format like .zip & .tar[1],
and that the 7z program supports several compression methods like LZMA
(the default), deflate (default zip/gzip compression), bzip2, PPMd
(best for text files) and BCJ2 (for binaries--maybe Windows-only?). 
And those methods each have several options that might influence
(de)compression size & time.

[1] But at this moment the 7z format does not support unix-style file
attributes, that's why .tar.7z is needed...

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JanC