Bug#1056373: Bug#1056374: Bug#1056373: musescore-general-soundfont: Uses dpkg --no-uniform-compression

Hi Guillem, >That's usually the way to obsolete these things yes, for reference >this is the patch I've got queued: […] Thanks, that looks good from a quick glance. >So if that looks good, then I'll update >

Bug#1056373: musescore-general-soundfont: Uses dpkg --no-uniform-compression

On Wed, 2023-11-22 at 01:57:50 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Guillem Jover dixit: > >the above (waiting for EOL, or the dpkg update, or compressing > >everything with gzip) are not good options, I guess I could wait a > >bit more until say dpkg 1.23.x? It's not urgent, it would just be > >nice to

Bug#1056373: musescore-general-soundfont: Uses dpkg --no-uniform-compression

Guillem Jover dixit: >Checking https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases it looks like that will >reach EOL It’s been EOL for desktop use since 2016 or so, and last time I looked (2021/2022) this has not deterred people from using it. >I see Ubuntu also backported the relevant change to dpkg in >

Bug#1056373: musescore-general-soundfont: Uses dpkg --no-uniform-compression

Hi! On Tue, 2023-11-21 at 23:58:00 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >This package uses this option, so I was wondering whether it can be > >removed now? > > I would very much like to keep this option. It allows users of > older (in some cases very old) distributions to install the > binary package

Bug#1056373: musescore-general-soundfont: Uses dpkg --no-uniform-compression

Hi Guillem, >This package uses this option, so I was wondering whether it can be >removed now? I would very much like to keep this option. It allows users of older (in some cases very old) distributions to install the binary packages of newer versions without bpo, which stops being available pret

Bug#1056373: musescore-general-soundfont: Uses dpkg --no-uniform-compression

Source: musescore-general-soundfont Source-Version: 0.2.1-1 Severity: wishlist Hi! I've been pondering obsoleting the dpkg-deb --no-uniform-compression option to simplify the format going forward (even though dpkg-deb will keep accepting such packages for unpack. This package uses this option, s