Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.1.1 Severity: normal Hi,
I wanted all udebs to use the xz compression level 0e, which is accomplished by passing -0 -e or just -0e to xz. However dpkg-deb currently wants an integral value for the compression level. As stated in [1] -e is actually very useful at least for this set of packages, going from 50M (gzip/amd64) to 40M instead of 43M without it. That's of course at the expense of taking longer to compile, but that's ok with udebs. The differing compression of udebs will be handled in debhelper's dh_builddeb, which already special-cases them. Can we get -e support in due course in dpkg/unstable? Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] 20111023152644.ga25...@thrall.0x539.de -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.13-3 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-7 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libselinux1 2.1.0-1 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.8.15.8 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111107153532.11961.79565.report...@spike.0x539.de