On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Kang-Che Sung <[email protected]> wrote: > CONFIG_DPKG and CONFIG_DPKG_DEB unnecessarily depend on > CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ. Worse, it has been using "select" clause, > which would prevent FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ from being unselect-able when > using "make config" without a .config file: > > $ rm .config > $ make config > [Answer N to almost every boolean choice, and observe that > FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ cannot be unselected.] > > Because the C code of both dpkg and dpkg-deb are already aware of no-GZ > configuration, it's safe to remove that dependency.
My understanding is that .deb files usually use .gz compression, and building dpkg without support for .gz results in a useless tool: there are no .deb files which it can process. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
