On 2012-05-14 21:16, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I'm very confused about what the status is regarding udeb and > data.tar.xz. Are they allowed or not? It seems at the moment that > dh_builddeb is creating them by default, and lintian is complaining that > this is an error. > > I've done a search through the web and debian-devel and it looks like > things are in transition. That is, there are people hoping that the > udeb infrastruction will support xz compression, and even an assertion > that the lintian complaint is not obsolete and those references *appear* > newer than references to the udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball error. > > Or I could be conservative and hard code something explicit in > debian/rules to force dh_builddeb to pass -Zgzip to dpkg-deb, but that > will be ugly, and risks being obsolete at some point. > > Can someone tell me what's up, and ideally update the text at: > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball.html > > ... so developers can know what to do? > > Many thanks, > > - Ted > >
Hi, Lintian is outdated (#664600) and the fix has been commited to the git repository[1] ~Niels [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec4e5cbf5ceea35db5948be21d3b03d696607b0f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fb1624f.3060...@thykier.net
