Hi, > See also an upstream GNU discussion on whether more GNU packages > should start providing zstd, or even lzip, tarballs in addition to xz: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2024-04/msg00032.html I'm sure not going to tell any developers here something they don't know! But for anybody that's just starting to look at this I thought these were really helpful. https://manishrjain.com/compression-algo-moving-data https://linuxreviews.org/Comparison_of_Compression_Algorithms >From both of those I get that ZSTD is a pretty good option to consider. Cheers! Arnie -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue