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  1. Bug #815895
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Comment 5 for bug 815895

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Alex Waite (alexqw85) wrote :

I've been playing with the compression in order to make my debs smaller. I add the following to my debian/rules file
override_dh_builddeb:
        dh_builddeb -- -Zlzma -z9
This dropped a package from 3GB using the default settings to 1.9 GB using lzma -z 9.

It also looks as if this may have been fixed in Oneiric. The Debian bug report indicates that apt 0.8.16~exp3 contains the fix, which is the current version in Oneiric. I was unable to test this because the Oneiric installer crashes during install in my virtual box VM.

---Alex