Re: [PATCH 2/2] release: use xz compression

Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] release: use xz compression

Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2019 13:59:35 +0100

To: David Bremner, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor

On Tue 2019-03-19 07:08:19 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> This produces tarballs that are roughly 30% smaller.

LGTM.  I can confirm that i'm seeing tarball sizes go from 924543 bytes
(or 917179 bytes with gzip -9) to 644892 bytes with this xz approach.

I think the ecosystem that notmuch targets *can* handle .xz these days,
too.

  --dkg

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