patch for compression type priority (gz, bz2, possibly others)

the patch as attachment

Removing the debian task, its enough to have one task.

What's the current behavior of APT these days? I notice we provide Packages.bz2 for Intrepid Universe, but it's not obvious to me that we're using it. Recompressing this with lzma shows another 10% savings over Packages.bz2

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 0.7.23.1ubuntu1

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apt (0.7.23.1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Matt Zimmerman ]
  * apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:
    - Suppress apport reports on dpkg short reads (these I/O errors are not
      generally indicative of a bug in the packaging)

  [ Loïc Minier ]
  * cmdline/apt-key:
    - Emit a warning if removed keys keyring is missing and skip associated
      checks (LP: #218971)

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * cmdline/apt-get.cc:
    - typo fix (LP: #370094)

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc:
    - when tcgetattr() returns non-zero skip all pty magic
      (thanks to Simon Richter, closes: #509866)
  * apt-inst/contrib/arfile.cc:
    - show propper error message for Invalid archive members
  * apt-pkg/acquire-worker.cc:
    - show error details of failed methods
  * apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc:
    - if a process aborts with signal, show signal number
  * methods/http.cc:
    - ignore SIGPIPE, we deal with EPIPE from write in
      HttpMethod::ServerDie() (LP: #385144)
  * debian/apt.cron.daily:
    - if the timestamp is too far in the future, delete it
      (LP: #135262)

  [ Merge ]
  * merged from debian, reverted the libdlopen-udev branch
    because its too late in the release process for this now
  * not merged the proxy behaviour change from 0.7.23 (that will
    be part of lucid)

apt (0.7.23.1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc:
    - do not set internel "needs-configure" state for packages in
      triggers-pending state. dpkg will deal with the trigger and
      it if does it before we trigger it, dpkg will error out
      (LP: #414631)
  * apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc:
    - do not segfault on invalid items (closes: #544080)

apt (0.7.23) unstable; urgency=low

  [ David Kalnischkies ]
  * cmdline/apt-get.cc:
    - add APT::Get::HideAutoRemove=small to display only a short line
      instead of the full package list. (Closes: #537450)
    - ShowBroken() in build-dep (by Mike O'Connor, Closes: #145916)
    - check for statfs.f_type (by Robert Millan, Closes: #509313)
    - correct the order of picked package binary vs source in source
    - use SourceVersion instead of the BinaryVersion to get the source
      Patch by Matt Kraai, thanks! (Closes: #382826)
    - add pkg/archive and codename in source (Closes: #414105, #441178)
  * apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc:
    - enable thousand separator according to the current locale
      (by Luca Bruno, Closes: #223712)
  * doc/apt.conf.5.xml:
    - mention the apt.conf.d dir (by Vincent McIntyre, Closes: #520831)
  * apt-inst/contrib/arfile.cc:
    - use sizeof instead strlen (by Marius Vollmer, Closes: #504325)
  * doc/apt-mark.8.xml:
    - improve manpage based on patch by Carl Chenet (Closes: #510286)
  * apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc:
    - use configsettings for dynamic compression type use and order.
      Based on a patch by Jyrki Muukkonen, thanks! (LP: #71746)
  * apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc:
    - add default configuration for compression types and add lzma
      support. Order is now bzip2, lzma, gzip, none (Closes: #510526)
  * ftparchive/writer.cc:
    - add lzma support also here, patch for this (and...