* Christoph Biedl <[email protected]>, 2016-06-30, 22:56:
So we would only bother people who overrode the default
add: In an unreasonable way.
Right.
However I'm undecided now how to deal with that. Using lintian,
actually promoted by the developer's reference 7.1.1, is somewhat late
in the chain. It was way better if dpkg-deb could automatically decide
upon an optimal compression value. After a quick glance into the
sources this seems possible but not very nice to do. Afterwards,
dpkg-deb could discourage setting the compression level manually, and
lintian could enforce that.
"Optimal" is subjective.
It makes sense for dpkg to use lower compression level than the user
requested when the tarball is small.
But I don't think dpkg should use anything beyond -6 just because the
tarball is big. Higher compression levels should be used only when
explicitly requested by user, because their costs are non-negligible and
their benefits are greatly variable.
--
Jakub Wilk
