GNU bug report logs - #919
distributions in lzma or bz2?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)

Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 18:55:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#919: distributions in lzma or bz2?
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:35:21 -0400

> emacs-22.3.tar.gz is       39587396 bytes.
> Compressed with lzma, it's 26752360 bytes.
> (I didn't check bzip2, presumably it's somewhere in between.)

lzma would make sense indeed.  It does seem to be the next standard
(contrary to bzip2 whose performance advantage over gzip wasn't enough
to replace it).


        Stefan
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