Re: Adding support for LZIP to dpkg, using that instead of xz, archive wide

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 06/14/2015 04:08 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:08:24 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> 
>> And by the way, xz wouldn't be usable with pristine-tar for the same
>> reason.
> 
> Ehm. pristine-xz(1) would beg to disagree.
> 
> In the multimedia team, we use it for over 40 packages (where upstream 
> provides an xz file of course).
> 
> I guess you should have a script that does git archive ; pristine-tar 
> commit.

Did you try using the same pristine-tar xz thing but with a different
version of xz-utils, for example the one in Trusty vs the one in Sid?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)