Bug#818574: dose : does not support xz input files
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 09:41:42 +0200 Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:11:29 +0100 Ralf Treinen wrote: > > the dose services on qa.debian.org currently do not support xz input files. > > while there is no libxz binding for ocaml yet, ben uses Sys.command to execute > zcat, bzcat and xzcat on demand for compressed files. Maybe a similar scheme > could be implemented in dose3? > > Thanks! > > cheers, josch Hi, Is there any news on this bug? It is my understanding that the FTP masters want to retire Packages.gz shortly before the Stretch release. Thanks, ~Niels
Bug#818574: dose : does not support xz input files
Hi, Quoting Niels Thykier (2016-09-22 21:07:00) > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 09:41:42 +0200 Johannes Schauer > > while there is no libxz binding for ocaml yet, ben uses Sys.command to > > execute zcat, bzcat and xzcat on demand for compressed files. Maybe a > > similar scheme could be implemented in dose3? > Is there any news on this bug? I did not find the time to implement the hack that ben uses for decompression so far. > It is my understanding that the FTP masters want to retire Packages.gz > shortly before the Stretch release. That will mean that unless some magical xz equivalent to libbz2-ocaml and libzip-ocaml pops up, users of dose3 tools will have to decompress their Packages and Sources files themselves manually before using them with dose3. Thanks! cheers, josch signature.asc Description: signature
