Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

* Guillem Jover [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:46:26 +0300]: Hello, Guillem. > So, I'd like to ask the Release Team, if it would be fine with you to > add such Pre-Depends for the next dpkg upload targetting lenny. Yes, it's fine with us. Please let us know when the upload is done. Cheers, -- Adeodato

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:44:30PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends"): > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:28:01PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > What advantage would we (as in Debian) have if dpkg pre-depe

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends"): > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:28:01PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > What advantage would we (as in Debian) have if dpkg pre-depends on lzma, > > instead of the packages pre-depending on lzma? >

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:28:01PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 06:18:36 +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:01:16 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > > > As per policy 3.5 I'm bring

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

* Guillem Jover ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080723 05:08]: > Summary of the thread starting at: > > > > The only valid concerns rised in that thread were from Anthony, and I > think I gave reasons to dismiss them (found below). > > The rest

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

Hi, Summary of the thread starting at: The only valid concerns rised in that thread were from Anthony, and I think I gave reasons to dismiss them (found below). The rest were concerning policy decisions on when to use lzma compressi

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

Hi, On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 14:01:16 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages after > > lenny w/o having to

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:20:10PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: [...] > I strongly recommend not to use lzma on embedded architectures. I suppose that depends on how it's used, but Wikipedia's article on the algorithm even goes so far as to state: "Small code size and relatively low memor

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 02/04/08 at 01:52 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: So of course besides OOo on there we also find the kernel packages. We wouldn't have to use lzma for the kernels though, if that would raise the >>

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

Am Mittwoch 02 April 2008 schrieb Mike Bird: > On Wed April 2 2008 01:52:39 Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > The results are a bit misleading, because they compare the absolute > > > gain. > > > > It's the absolute size savings that cou

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Wed April 2 2008 01:52:39 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > The results are a bit misleading, because they compare the absolute > > gain. > > It's the absolute size savings that counts - that's what's going to have > the biggest impact on

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On 02/04/08 at 01:52 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > So of course besides OOo on there we also find the kernel packages. We > > > wouldn't have to use lzma for the kernels though, if that would raise the > > > minimum memory requ

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:43AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > So of course besides OOo on there we also find the kernel packages. We > > wouldn't have to use lzma for the kernels though, if that would raise the > > minimum memory requirements for servers, or lzma could be selectively > > ena

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On 01/04/08 at 23:49 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:42:32PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > On the more general issue of lzma-compresses packages, I find a 34MB > > RAM requirement quite hefty for general purpose use; that is, unless > > we restrict lzma compression

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:42:32PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On the more general issue of lzma-compresses packages, I find a 34MB > RAM requirement quite hefty for general purpose use; that is, unless > we restrict lzma compression to packages that wouldn't make sense on > hardware with so

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages after > lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb package > compressed that way. Hr

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Tue, April 1, 2008 13:42, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On the more general issue of lzma-compresses packages, I find a 34MB > RAM requirement quite hefty for general purpose use; that is, unless > we restrict lzma compression to packages that wouldn't make sense on > hardware with so little RAM a

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages > > after lenny w/o having to add an lzma P

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages > after lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb > package compressed that way.

Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

Hi, As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages after lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb package compressed that way. For a lengthier discussion, please check: