On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > Yes, but if the decompressor packages are reorganised at all, or we > decide to change again how it is implemented in dpkg, all of those > packages will become broken. > > Given that this will be a pre-depends and will be in a large number of > packages, I think it is important that it be very stable.
Ok, makes sense. > > I would only be in favor of that if we modify dpkg to auto-generate that > > dependency, unfortunately right now we only know how to compress when > > "dpkg-deb -b -Z<something>" is called and this is after dpkg-gencontrol > > obviously. > > How about if we arrange to pass -Z<something> to dpkg-gencontrol, and > have a table in dpkg-dev to map <something> to > deb-decompressor-<something> for values where it is needed ? The problematic part is "arrange to pass -Z<something> to dpkg-gencontrol" ... the -Z of dpkg-buildpackage is for dpkg-source and not dpkg-deb -b. And even if we knew right from the start what compressor to use, the dpkg-gencontrol call is hidden in debian/rules and we have no way to pass anything (except maybe an environment variable which isn't really nice). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
