Philipp Kern wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:45:03AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Philipp Kern wrote: > > > So now to the question: What's the policy for dpkg(-deb) feature use in > > > debhelper? Would it be feasible to add '-z1', '-Zxz', '-Sextreme' to the > > > dpkg-deb arguments for udebs within debhelper, once the dpkg changes land > > > in > > > the archive, even if that's not supported within stable? > > I don't mind making that kind of change. Patches accepted if debian-boot > > decides that's the way to go. > > can you make that change in your next debhelper upload, please?
Well, I've done this, but I noticed that it only causes the data.tar to be xz compressed. There is still a control.tar.gz. Since udebs tend to have a lot of their content in the control archive, this is probably not as effective as it could be. For example, in anna, the first package I tried: -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey 6.5K May 13 13:16 data.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey 66K May 13 13:16 control.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 joey joey 47K May 13 13:16 control.tar.xz -- see shy jo
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