Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

[Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.32
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
Usertags: xz-compression

Hello,

we discussed some time ago on debian-devel (in a ftpmaster-related thread)
the possiblity to switch dpkg-deb to generate XZ-compressed debs by
default. ftp-master.debian.org is close to being ready for this but I
saw #633782 by accident which reminded that there's more to it than
just changing dpkg-deb :-)

Please can you add support for XZ-compressed .deb and/or tell us which
package should not use XZ compression so that we can modify them
to hardcode gzip usage?

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii  wget                          1.12-3.1   retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  gnupg                         1.4.11-3   GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep

debootstrap suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information