Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...
On 2012-05-19 00:52 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:27:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> Guillem Jover wrote:
>> > Only as long as the debian/control information matches the one from
>> > the archive override.
>>
>> I checked, and currently the only base package with an overridden priority
>> is libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
>
> So, would it be safe to make dpkg-deb default to xz if priority is <
> important for wheezy?
It wouldn't, because not all required or important packages actually
have the correct priority. For instance, insserv has priority optional
but is a dependency of sysv-rc which is required.
In general, switching to xz compression by default will make it
impossible to debootstrap testing/unstable if the host system does not
have the xzcat command, because often packages become part of the base
system without further notice.
Cheers,
Sven
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