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bug #46915: Suggestion to use xz compression for tarball

Submitter:  Dr. Tobias Quathamer <tt>
Submitted:  Sun 17 Jan 2016 11:16:18 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  tt
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sun 17 Jan 2016 11:16:18 AM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

I'd like to suggest to use xz compression (instead of gz) for the tarball. It's a reduction in size of nearly 3 MB (16 MB using .gz; 13 MB using .xz).

Patch attached.

Dr. Tobias Quathamer <tt>
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(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2016-01-17 tt StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone tt
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2016-01-17 tt Attached File- Added use-xz-compression-for-tarball.diff, #36059

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