Hi! On Mon, 2013-07-29 at 21:33:36 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.17.0 > Severity: important > File: /usr/bin/dpkg-deb
> The linux maintainers chose to pass -Zgzip -z0 to dpkg-deb to retain > backwards compatibility. To retain compatibility they should either not have specified -z at all or used -z9. dpkg-deb(1) is pretty clear that -z0 for gzip is equivalent to no compression. > Unfortunately the resulting binary package does > not conform to the format documented at man 5 deb. It contains a > data.tar.gz memeber, that is not a valid gzip file. dpkg-deb should > produce the correct extension for uncompressed data members. Ah right, although zlib handles the no compression part just fine, so does «gzip -f». In any case I've to say I've always kind of wondered about the usefulness of -z0 for gzip, because it's an ofuscated way to just say -Znone. At this point I'm tempted to just deprecate -Zgzip -z0. I'll fix this in any way for 1.17.2. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
