On Sun, 2012-11-04 at 08:11:25 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 21:56:12 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > are there plans on the dpkg side to support other compression methods > > for the control.tar in .deb files? Some of the d-i udebs have large > > debconf templates which are only compressed with gzip, while xz would > > yield smaller udebs.
> One problem is that I don't really feel like adding options to select > the compressor for each different ar member, so if the compressor is > global it means it cannot be switched to compress the control member > with anything other than gzip until a dpkg supporting unpacking that > is in stable, which would seem to be too late for that now (barring > an exception from the RT of course, althought that might still require > string changes which would be pretty annoying). And special casing > udebs is not an option either, because dpkg-deb does not have any > kind of knowledge about them in the first place. Having slept over this, it just ocurred to me that I'd be fine with a new option (something in spirit like --compressor-unified) for dpkg-deb, which once implemented could be used by debhelper exclusively for udebs already during jessie, and which would become a noop once and if the switch to the unified members compressor happens after jessie+1. I've added this to my TODO list for when I continue reworking the (un)packing code. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
