Improve source archive compression in GitHub Actions#1694
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- Switch compression format from gzip to xz - Use xz maximum compression level (`-9e`) to minimize archive size
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LGMT, but with one side note...
One downside with this change is that it will take longer to compress the source code (6 minutes vs 32 minutes).
Since building the deb file will take around 2 hours, I'm okay with this increased time (provided that the amount of time to compress the file doesn't exceed the amount of time to build the deb package).
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-9e) to minimize archive size-6)-9)-9e)The results show xz with maximum compression level cuts the archive size by ~37%.