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Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.16.9
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if dpkg-source could support 7z compressed files.
Julian
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Hi!
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 14:16:08 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 22:17:42 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > It would be nice if dpkg-source could support 7z compressed files.
>
> Hmm, I really do understand the desire and benefit of adding more
> compression formats support to dpkg-source, as it avoids having to
> repack the original source tarball, and in this way checksums or
> upstream signatures are preserved, it might also improve compression
> ratio compared to previous supported compressions.
>
> But then the costs of adding support for an additional compression
> format are quite high, to the point that those benefits seem small
> compared to them. The costs are (at least): increase in the
> build-essential set; the new compression becomes part of the source
> format forver, as it can never be taken back as old Debian packages
> or 3rd-party packages in the wild might be using that format; it's
> another (uncommon) package required on non-Debian-based systems to
> be able to handle those source packages.
>
> Given the above, that I don't think 7z is widely used to distribute
> source (?), and that it does not improve compression ratio over xz,
> I'll be tagging this wontfix for now (and probably close after a bit,
> as I'm adding this into a new dpkg FAQ on the wiki), note though
> that if say, the uptake of 7z in upstream releases would increase
> substantally I'd be open to reconsider this.
Closing now, but as mentioned above if things change I'd be open to
reconsider.
Thanks,
Guillem
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