Hi, On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:19:31PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:45:03AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > So now to the question: What's the policy for dpkg(-deb) feature use in > > > > debhelper? Would it be feasible to add '-z1', '-Zxz', '-Sextreme' to the > > > > dpkg-deb arguments for udebs within debhelper, once the dpkg changes land in > > > > the archive, even if that's not supported within stable? > > > I don't mind making that kind of change. Patches accepted if debian-boot > > > decides that's the way to go. > > can you make that change in your next debhelper upload, please? > Well, I've done this, but I noticed that it only causes the data.tar to > be xz compressed. There is still a control.tar.gz. Since udebs tend > to have a lot of their content in the control archive, this is probably > not as effective as it could be. true. I saw the gain just with data.tar.xz, though. The thing is that control.tar.gz is fixed with the current deb format. I guess we could bump the binary format in the future and allow a control.tar.$somethingelse, but currently all tools would trip over it. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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