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commit 8765f379613cbaf8bd060719fdab4899a4e91608 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Date: Tue Aug 9 03:03:13 2016 +0200 debian: Stop compressing the dpkg.deb package with gzip There are only 5 remaining packages in the Debian base system that still compress with gzip, the rest are all using xz, so there is no point in making dpkg use gzip any longer. --- debian/changelog | 1 + debian/rules | 5 +---- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 9209919..ac7d4fd 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ dpkg (1.18.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium - Use perl:Depends via dh_perl instead of a hardcoded perl in Depends. - Remove unused dh_strip from binary_indep target. - Remove ancient upgrade code from maintainer scripts (before 1.15.x). + - Stop compressing the dpkg.deb package with gzip. * Documentation: - Update custom changelog parser API support status in README.api. - Fix typos in docs and man pages. Thanks to Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index 1171a3e..8de6cf2 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++ b/debian/rules @@ -121,10 +121,7 @@ binary-arch: install dh_shlibdeps -a dh_gencontrol -a dh_md5sums -a - # Make debootstrap life easier on non-Debian based systems by - # compressing dpkg.deb with gzip instead of xz. - dh_builddeb -pdpkg -- -Zgzip - dh_builddeb -a -Ndpkg + dh_builddeb -a # Put together the dpkg-dev package binary-indep: install -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git
