On 10/26/2011 12:45 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Micah Gersten <[email protected]> wrote: >>> It's a check on upload and not during the build would be my guess. Maybe we >>> should add a lintian warning/error if it uses .xz debs w/out the >> >> Speaking of Lintian warnings, would it make sense to have lintian >> duplicate the original .gz, compress with xz, check the difference and >> if it's greater than $threshold percentage, print a warning (or info) >> that using xz compression would save $some %? > > We shouldn't actively promote xz like that until the need for the > Pre-Depends has gone away (i.e. after 12.04 LTS). > > Furthermore, Lintian checks need to be reasonably quick or else people > will Ctrl-C it. The above would be very slow on many packages. >
If you're not going to lintian it, a periodic archive scan/report somewhere would be appreciated. In fact we may as well do one soon. Thanks, Scott Ritchie -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
