[Debian-in-workers] Introducing xz compression for deb

[Vasudev Kamath]

Hello List,

Recently pkg-fonts team decided to move their space intensive fonts to
use *xz* compression instead of bzip2. *xz* is consider to be best in
compression but on the same hand it is slower. I'm planning to
introduce this same to some packages in *Debian-IN* team.

I've already done this to fonts-smc which was around 1 MB in size in debian archive
after building with xz its size will be reduced to 784 kb not much of
a gain but still it will save some bandwidth atleast in India
;-). Rest of fonts are not very huge in size so I don't think its
worth introducing xz there, but this is my view I request others to
share theirs :-)

If you see any package in Debian-IN team as huge (according to Indian
b/w) please consider using xz for that. If you are not developer then
please point us out.

With Regards

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