More efficient compression for gdebi

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The compression algorithm used by debian installation packages are a little bit out dated .
More efficient compression algorithms are there , which can give a better compression ( 130 % or more ) and decompression time .

Also see
1.http://www.squeezechart.com/record.html
2.http://www.maximumcompression.com/index.html
3. Specification URL

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