Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...
On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 18:47:01 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Special-casing base packages would be a lot of complexity, let's avoid that
> > if possible -- but still preferred to letting gzip stay.
>
> Base packages can be identified at build time by their priority.
> if ($priority ne 'important' && $priority ne 'required') {
> }
Only as long as the debian/control information matches the one from
the archive override. And if we have to keep changing the packages
anyway to make sure they match changing priorities, we might as well
just set the compressor (to gzip) explicitly for base packages.
regards,
guillem
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