On 2012-08-28 12:05:26 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:10:18PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > We know some packages are better to use gzip, but it's an > > exception. Using xz is best choice for rest 99.99% of packages. > > We can deal with such exception by specifying gzip for that (e.g. > > openclipart-png). > > There's a better compressor here, it's name is "cat" (meow!). PNG files are > already deflate-compressed, so gzip can't help (higher settings for an > infinitessimal benefit aside).
Before wondering whether PNG files should have an additional compression level, is there any reason why a better PNG compression isn't used in the first place? For instance, "optipng -o9" tries various parameters and keeps the best one. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120828105647.ge19...@xvii.vinc17.org
