Hi! I'd like to obsolete bzip2 (and lzma) as .deb compressors when building binary packages. dpkg-deb currently emits warnings, this would turn them into errors. For lzma it's fine in Debian as the archive has never accepted them. For bzip2 there are currently 31 source packages that produce some binary packages using that compressor:
<https://lintian.debian.org/tags/uses-deprecated-compression-for-data-tarball.html> Unpacking *will* keep being supported for the forseeable future so that we can examine old binaries, in the same way dpkg-deb still supports format 0.939000. I'm attaching the prospective dd-list, and the template bug report. I'd like do the MBF in 1 or 2 weeks, and turn the warnings into errors in the first dpkg release after 1 or 2 months from now. I'm easy if people would like more or less time? Thanks, Guillem
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Hi! This source package builds one or more binary packages using the deprecated compressor bzip2. The default has been xz for a while now which should usually compress better than bzip2. If instead you'd like speed then switch to use gzip. Using a deprecated compressor when building binary packages will become an error in the near future. Please update the packages. See also: <link to MBF thread>. Thanks, Guillem
