Hi! On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 22:27:58 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 08:11:25 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 21:56:12 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > are there plans on the dpkg side to support other compression methods > > > for the control.tar in .deb files? Some of the d-i udebs have large > > > debconf templates which are only compressed with gzip, while xz would > > > yield smaller udebs. > > > One problem is that I don't really feel like adding options to select > > the compressor for each different ar member, so if the compressor is > > global it means it cannot be switched to compress the control member > > with anything other than gzip until a dpkg supporting unpacking that > > is in stable, which would seem to be too late for that now (barring > > an exception from the RT of course, althought that might still require > > string changes which would be pretty annoying). And special casing > > udebs is not an option either, because dpkg-deb does not have any > > kind of knowledge about them in the first place. > > Having slept over this, it just ocurred to me that I'd be fine with a > new option (something in spirit like --compressor-unified) for dpkg-deb, > which once implemented could be used by debhelper exclusively for udebs > already during jessie, and which would become a noop once and if the > switch to the unified members compressor happens after jessie+1. > > I've added this to my TODO list for when I continue reworking the > (un)packing code.
This is now implemented in dpkg 1.17.6, as the --uniform-compression option for dpkg-deb. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140115180510.ga14...@gaara.hadrons.org
