On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > How do we expect to choose which packages will use which compressors ?
Right now, maintainers choose that by adding the right -Z option in the dh_builddeb call (which forwards the option to dpkg-deb -b). So they put it directly in the rules file. > Ideally in the end the maintainer would decide, so it ought to be in > the source package somewhere. But we want to override it too. > > I think for overriding it, an environment variable is fine. Perhaps > we could just tell maintainers to put > export DPKG_DEB_COMPRESSOR ?= ... > in their rules. Hrm, that doesn't work so well if different packages > want different compression schemes. A debian/control file field ? The debian/control field is the only viable option IMO. It would be somewhat similar to the Package-Type: header which has no real use except influencing the behaviour of another tool during the build. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
