Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Tristan Wibberley]

Mikael Eriksson wrote:

> After running my script on a lot of packages i see a pattern. Really
> small debs, ~2000 bytes large benefit most for gzip -9 compression. And
> everything else benefits most for 7z compression.

How does rzip fare? It uses a lot of memory on really large files
(multi-hundred MB), but is really, really good at compressing.

http://rzip.samba.org/

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Tristan Wibberley