[Pkg-isocodes-devel] iso-codes 3.37.1 not released?

Tobias Quathamer toddy at debian.org
Tue Aug 7 09:36:46 UTC 2012


Am 07.08.2012 11:21, schrieb Tobias Quathamer:
> Am 07.08.2012 10:23, schrieb Christian PERRIER:
>> I think that even the upstream tarball could benefit from xz
>> compression, too, indeed.
> 
> Good point, I'll look at that. However, using the autotools for tarball
> creation, I'm not sure how to enable that. It might take some time.

Hm, turned out to be trivial. I've applied this change for our iso-codes
tarball as well, so we get a *huge* difference in tarball size: 10M with
bzip2, 3.5M with xz. That saves 65%! Quite impressive.

Regards,
Tobias

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