This was the motivation for me to start working on dpkg in the first place. As long as /usr/bin/lzma is an essential commmand, it is difficult to uninstall it even for a moment to replace it with an alternative implementation.
Unfortunately, liblzma does not provide a very convenient API yet. The good news is that the experience from implementing this should help determine what its higher-level API looks like once it’s written. Jonathan Nieder (3): libdpkg: let backends decide default compression level libdpkg: compress_lzma(): decrease default compression level dpkg-deb: add liblzma support -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
