[Development] Decrease amounth of delivered src packages

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On miércoles, 15 de febrero de 2017 17:29:43 ART Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On quarta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2017 15:11:49 PST Mathias Hasselmann
> 
> wrote:
> > That's a somewhat limited point of view. Yes, xz archives are slightly
> > smaller, but to be honest: In the days of 4K video streaming saving
> > 100MiB of download size doesn't seem as important as it was.
> 
> There are still people with bad or slow connections.

And lots of bandwith usage: download from qt, upload to distro server, push to 
every mirror around, users downloading the source code from distros...

Granted, some of we distro maintainers could repack the source code, but it is 
always better to have the original whenever possible.

> > Is it worth to spend 10 additional minutes per CI cycle just to save our
> > users a very few seconds of download time?
> 
> Wait, CI cycle?
> 
> I thought we were talking about releases only, which are final as well as
> snapshot packages. Why is the CI creating tarballs?


If the problem is the CI then the CI might use gz and use xz for released 
tarballs.

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