Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:58:28PM +0200, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> Speaking of language files, those also compress better with bz2 even though they
> are in mo format:
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1356095 2005-12-07 16:51 LC_MESSAGES-fi.tar.bz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1590691 2005-12-07 16:52 LC_MESSAGES-fi.tar.gz
> 
> (compressed etch's /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES to get those)

That's why the language pack .debs are already compressed with bzip2.

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 - mdz