Hi! On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 13:47:49 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 03:19:40 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I'd like to obsolete bzip2 (and lzma) as .deb compressors when building > > binary packages. dpkg-deb currently emits warnings, this would turn them > > into errors. For lzma it's fine in Debian as the archive has never > > accepted them. For bzip2 there are currently 31 source packages that > > produce some binary packages using that compressor: > > > > <https://lintian.debian.org/tags/uses-deprecated-compression-for-data-tarball.html> > > > > Unpacking *will* keep being supported for the forseeable future so that > > we can examine old binaries, in the same way dpkg-deb still supports > > format 0.939000. > > > > I'm attaching the prospective dd-list, and the template bug report. I'd > > like do the MBF in 1 or 2 weeks, and turn the warnings into errors in > > the first dpkg release after 1 or 2 months from now. I'm easy if people > > would like more or less time? > > Thanks to Adam Borowski who handled the QA team packages! > > I've done the MBF [M], and I'm planning on turning the compressor > deprecation warnings into errors in the first dpkg release happening > after two weeks from now, at which point I'll upgrade the remaining bugs > to serious. > > [M] > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=dpkg-obsolete-deb-data-tar-compressor;users=debian-d...@lists.debian.org>
This happened now with the dpkg 1.18.11 upload. Thanks, Guillem
