Re: xz support in dpkg (was Re: dpkg plans for the squeeze cycle)

2009-09-24 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 01:40:20 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > LZMA decompressors can use large amounts of memory when processing > archives built with a large dictionary size. Running out of memory > can have bad effects, so the decompressor takes an argument > representing maximum memory us

xz support in dpkg (was Re: dpkg plans for the squeeze cycle)

2009-09-21 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi! d-i maintainers: If you’re impatient, please skip to "a." below. Guillem Jover wrote re dpkg plans for squeeze: > * XZ compression support (to deprecate lzma). > >The lzma format will still be supported, though, always for >extraction (as xz tools support it in a backward manner),