Tom Hughes wrote:
I'd say remove it - compressing the debug sections is horrible
because
it forces anything that wants to access the debug data to load it all in
and decompress it rather than just reading what it needs.
In addition, it actually increases download sizes because RPMs and live
images are xz-compressed, and xz compresses uncompressed data better than
zlib-compressed data. The zlib compression is much poorer than xz
compression, it just keeps xz from compressing things well.
Kevin Kofler