Bug 140008 - Don't gzip for nothing
Summary: Don't gzip for nothing
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version:
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7.0.4.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium trivial
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Reported: 2021-01-29 21:17 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2021-02-11 08:38 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2021-01-29 21:17:35 UTC 
Description:
Currently, the LibreOffice DEB and RPM tarballs are distributed in gzipped form.

However, the DEB and RPM package files are already themselves compressed; the DEBs seem to use LZMA even. And, indeed, the gzipping doesn't reduce the total size.

So - don't use it. You're just wasting CPU cycles for decompressing the tarball. What's wrong with libreoffice_whatever.tar ? Just distribute that.

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Comment 1 Julien Nabet 2021-01-30 09:31:10 UTC 
Rene: thought you might be interested in this one.
Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2021-02-09 10:26:03 UTC 
Hi Eyal,
Could you please send an email to dev mailing list about this topic. I think it's better to discuss this issue there...
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2021-02-11 07:30:46 UTC 
> Could you please send an email to dev mailing list about this topic. I think
> it's better to discuss this issue there...

Do you mean this list?

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Mailing_List
Comment 4 Xisco Faulí 2021-02-11 08:38:53 UTC 
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #3)
> > Could you please send an email to dev mailing list about this topic. I think
> > it's better to discuss this issue there...
> 
> Do you mean this list?
> 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Mailing_List

yes! Thanks in advance