Using zsync for .deb downloads: initial benchmark results

[Scott Ritchie]

Paul Sladen wrote:
> [2] It is not possible to just recompress a data.tar.gz->data.tar.bz2
> because the signature will change;  despite the *content* being the same.
> It is not possible to use the advcomp implementation instead of gzip as this
> would produce a different (hopefully smaller) encoding, with a different
> hash.

Perhaps we should also be providing signatures for the uncompressed tars?

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie