Hi! As mentioned some months ago [0], I'm planning to switch dpkg-deb default compressor from gzip to xz, as there seemed to be consensus that was the way to go, and given the amount of already manually switched packages, or packaging helpers. :/
[0] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/08/msg00822.html> The only previous dissenting argument was that the base system (the one generated by debootstrap), should keep using gz as the compression format so that it can work on other systems where xz is not easily available. But Steve McIntyre then mentioned that even that had changed during DebConf and it was not deemed worth it. I don't mind either way. If there's people who are still worried about that, I'd ask them to file bugs on the base packages to make them pass -Zgz explicitly to dpkg-deb (I'll do that for dpkg.deb in any case), and I can wait for the base system to be switched, but those packages could always be changed on their next upload, or even a fatal lintian error created so that ftp-master can reject those (I don't think there's one currently?). Otherwise I'll be doing the change with the dpkg 1.17.0 upload. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130507194903.ga15...@gaara.hadrons.org
