Hi, On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 02:50:14 +0200, Christian Leber wrote: > this patch adds lzma support to dpkg, it just adds 4 files and does very > minor changes, just like 10 lines.
> The 4 files are directly from the 7zip SDK, only 1 is slightly modified, > the license is GPL. > As you can see it's very simple. Well it includes an implementation of an lzma decompressor, I'd not say that's simple... I don't really like to include this in the dpkg source tree. It's also lacking a compressor. Please check 347715 for previous discussion and patch (it mostly needs a s/p7zip/lzma/), we have been working with the lzma maintainer in Debian to get a reasonable command line interface to be able to use it from dpkg. > I just recompressed the CD1 of debian testing for i386 with lzma and > this saved 27% space. I don't question the merits of lzma, I'm all for it, but not by including it in dpkg, calling a command line tool and/or linking against a library is reasonable though. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
