Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

2011-07-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 21:56:29 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > That said if you want to avoid it, what are the base packages where > it must absolutely be avoided? > > All essential + their (transitive) dependencies? > Seems like it's Priority: required (and dependencies) + binutils (for the f

Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

2011-07-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Otavio, On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Otavio Salvador wrote: > It seems XZ support has been included in 1.0.21, as can be seen at: Yeah but debian-installer doesn't have bzip2 and xz in the host so it's not really useful... you saw the recent bugs when libacl used bz2 compression. > About the use of

Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

2011-07-24 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:43, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Please can you add support for XZ-compressed .deb and/or tell us which > package should not use XZ compression so that we can modify them > to hardcode gzip usage? It seems XZ support has been included in 1.0.21, as can be seen at: debootst

Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

2011-07-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.32 Severity: wishlist User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: xz-compression Hello, we discussed some time ago on debian-devel (in a ftpmaster-related thread) the possiblity to switch dpkg-deb to generate XZ-compressed debs by default. ftp-master.debian.org