Re: Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz

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On 16/03/2019 13:24, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> suggest replacing xz with lzip as xz has quite a few flaws in its file format.

I seem to remember that this has been debunked/ruled out as irrelevant
to package distribution every time it has been proposed to Debian, e.g.
it even has worse decompression times then xz.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/07/msg00377.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/58swzc/xz_format_inadequate_for_longterm_archiving/

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