On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:24:32PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Due to bug 718295, and in preparation to add non-gzip compression > support for control.tar, I've tried to get an accurate view of the > current deb(5) format support in software present in Debian. The > resulting table looks pretty bad: > > <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebSupport>
If you want uncompressed data.tar, it is already possible without adding a new format that most tools don't know about. Good news: xz supports uncompressed lzma2 chunks. Bad news: tools don't expose this, xz -0 stands for "fast but non-null". Instead of putting effort towards teaching tools about bare .tar, perhaps it would be better to use null xz? Such debs would work with everything that supports xz. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- 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/20130802015301.ga8...@angband.pl
