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by tempay 2360 days ago
The bytes of the compressed file are non deterministic and depend on the number of cores used, system load and other “random” factors.
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Can't you set those parameters during compression to something fixed? Should be doable.
Or you can just use zstd.

The xz tool is not deterministic when compressing. The packaging team might change upstream for a few things, but diving into the innards of a compression tool is expecting a bit much.