Hi! On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 13:33:35 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > It seems there's quite many binary packages in the base system using > xz as compressor instead of gzip, since the switch to xz as default, > which might make debootstrapping from non-Debian systems harder. After > running the follwing: > > $ debootstrap --download-only sid sid-root-path > $ cd sid-root-path > $ find -name '*.deb' | while read deb; do \ > if ar t $deb | grep -q data\.tar\.$COMP; then \ > echo $deb; \ > fi \ > done | sort > > with COMP=xz gives 145 packages, with COMP=gz it gives 21. So I guess > it would make sense to decide if people still care about bootstrapping > from other systems where xz-utils might not be available. […]
Some time has passed and the current situation in sid is this: COMP=xz → 158 packages COMP=gz → 5 packages The ones using gzip are: base-files_9.6_amd64.deb base-passwd_3.5.39_amd64.deb dpkg_1.18.10_amd64.deb mawk_1.3.3-17_amd64.deb sensible-utils_0.0.9_all.deb I think we can clearly say that collectively we expect xz to be available when bootstrapping a Debian system. :) I'm thus going to switch dpkg.deb to use xz on the next upload. I've BCCed the other package maintainers as a heads up, because it seems using gzip when there's at least a single package in the base system using xz does not make much sense anyway. Thanks, Guillem
