On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2022-12-07 18:44, Phil Sutter wrote: > > >Instead of the default .tar.gz one. > > I get the feeling that at this point (in time), bzip2 as compression > does not make much sense anymore. If targeting size, the win goes to > LZMA-class compressors (e.g. xz), if targeting speed, the win goes to > LZ/deflate-ish compressors (e.g. gzip, zstd). Yes, the discussion is moot with only 4.6MB to be compressed. FWIW: | 4.6M iptables-1.8.8.tar | 984K iptables-1.8.8.tar.gz | 772K iptables-1.8.8.tar.bz2 | 636K iptables-1.8.8.tar.xz Moving to LZMA is trivial from a Makefile's point of view, but most packagers will have extra work adjusting for the new file name if we move away from bzip2. Cheers, Phil
