[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Examine Compressed Headers (Issue #2220)

[Demi Marie Obenour]

> While the payload is compressed the header is not. This is wasting time and IO whenever a header is loaded - be it form a package or the RPM BD.
> 
> For the v6 format we need to examine if compressing the headers yields enough benefits to justify this change.

Compressing the main header is okay, as it is signed.  Compressing the signature header is a bad idea unless an extra signature is added after compression.

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