Re: [RFC] Switching dpkg-deb --uniform-compression by default

2016-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 04:50:27AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi, > >Guillem Jover (2016-07-06): >> I'd like consider switching dpkg-deb --uniform-compression by default, >> so that both control.tar and data.tar members use the same >> compression, which currently would be xz (or gzip with -Zg

Re: [RFC] Switching dpkg-deb --uniform-compression by default

2016-07-14 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Guillem Jover (2016-07-06): > I'd like consider switching dpkg-deb --uniform-compression by default, > so that both control.tar and data.tar members use the same > compression, which currently would be xz (or gzip with -Zgzip). (AFAICT 'none' is still supported, contrary to 'bzip2' and 'lzma

[RFC] Switching dpkg-deb --uniform-compression by default

2016-07-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! I'd like consider switching dpkg-deb --uniform-compression by default, so that both control.tar and data.tar members use the same compression, which currently would be xz (or gzip with -Zgzip). This would give us more uniform and smaller packages. I think the d-i people wanted something like