[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] consider support for the courgette compression algorithm to decrease package size (#435)

[bernd hopp]

chromiums package management uses a surprisingly effective compression algorithm for binaries, called courgette. [source](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/courgette/)

When it was released, there was no support for ELF-binaries, which made it useless for posix-systems, but that support had been added meanwhile. So my suggestion is to look at this compression-algorithm again and make some tests with it, to see if it makes sense to create delta-rpms with it. Courgette uses the bsdiff binary-format as far as I can see.  

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