Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Phillip Susi]

Not quite as well it seems.  I tried rzip -9 and it gave a .tar.rz that 
was 28,341,146 bytes, compared to 7-zip's 23,081,869 bytes.

Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> 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/
>