On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 01:55:48AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 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_
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 follwi
On Sep 02, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > I know, but if systems on which xz-utils is not easily available really
> > exist then the interested parties could replace it with xzdec which is
> > small and statically linked.
> Is there such system or are we having an academic debate again?
I am quite sure
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014, at 10:24, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > I know, but if systems on which xz-utils is not easily available really
> > exist then the interested parties could replace it with xzdec which is
> > small and statically linked.
>
> Is there such syst
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014, at 10:24, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> I know, but if systems on which xz-utils is not easily available really
> exist then the interested parties could replace it with xzdec which is
> small and statically linked.
Is there such system or are we having an academic debate again?
Ch
On Sep 01, Colin Watson wrote:
> > If anybody really cares then I suggest that they add support for xzdec
> > to debootstrap.
> debootstrap has supported data.tar.xz since 2010. The thing that's
> relevant here, which is outside our control, is whether the non-Debian
> systems from which one mi
On 01/09/14 16:58, The Wanderer wrote:
> Unless debootstrap relies on the outside source to perform that
> decompression, of course, but in that case I'm not sure what it would
> even mean to say that debootstrap "supports" xz in the first place.
In this case "debootstrap supports xz" means "deboo
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On 09/01/2014 at 11:45 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 01:57:10PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>
>> On Sep 01, Guillem Jover wrote:
>>
>>> with COMP=xz gives 145 packages, with COMP=gz it gives 21. So I
>>> guess it would make sen
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 01:57:10PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 01, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > 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 av
Hi!
[ CCing Joey, as he was one of the people who seemed to care about this
at the time, and might be able to improve the current situation, if
he still cares, see below. ]
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 13:30:55 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 01/09/14 12:33, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > It seems there
On Sep 01, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 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. I think a
Not at all.
If anybody really cares then I suggest
On 01/09/14 12:33, 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.
According to your report, 145 out of 166 base pac
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