It should now be possible to use xz compression for .deb packages uploaded to Ubuntu oneiric (using 'dh_builddeb -- -Zxz'). In order to do so, you must include this field in the relevant binary packages:
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6) (This implies that such packages can only be uploaded to maverick and later.) Please do not use this for packages that are Priority: required or Priority: important, as you will break the installer if you do (and relaxing that restriction would have implications for people's ability to debootstrap Ubuntu on various minimal systems). Please check that it's actually worth compressing a package using xz before doing so! You can easily take the data.tar.gz, recompress it using xz, and compare the size. If you maintain a package that already uses -Zlzma, consider converting it to -Zxz; compression ratios should be similar, and it's a better-designed format. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
