Hi! I'd like consider switching dpkg-deb --uniform-compression by default, so that both control.tar and data.tar members use the same compression, which currently would be xz (or gzip with -Zgzip).
This would give us more uniform and smaller packages. I think the d-i people wanted something like this (?). Not all .deb parsers support control.tar.xz yet, but most do: <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebSupport> Any package using bzip2 as compressor would need to be fixed, as --uniform-compression only supports xz and gzip. See the MBF at <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00113.html>. dak and lintian would need to accept those, and then dpkg be switched. Would there be any objections to this? Thanks, Guillem
