Package: apt Version: 0.9.9.4 Severity: wishlist Hi!
The apt code does not support uncompressed data.tar .deb members, as specified by deb(5), which have been supported by since dpkg 1.10.24. At least the kernel team is currently using «dpkg-deb -Zgzip -z0» on linux-source-3.10, which generates an uncompressed data.tar.gz member (which TBH in a strict sense it's bogus for dpkg to create), because otherwise dak rejects uncompressed .deb data.tar members by way of python-apt, and finally libapt. dpkg-deb calls that “compressor” «none», in case you'd like to have some term consistency. In any case uncompressed data.tar members are useful in general, when the contents are all already compressed and there's no gain in recompressing the member again. AFAIK debdelta is also using those when reconstructing .debs to feed to dpkg, to avoid duped work. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
