On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 06:48:57AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > One of my co-maintainers for fonts changed the fonts-sil-abyssinica > package to use xz compression for *deb packages. > > Is it OK to upload the package with such change, d-i wise? This is the > only change along with the drop of an empty directory in the package > (cruft left from ttf-* -> fonts-* naming transition)? > > I think it should hurt and would indeed reduce the initrd size > slightly...as long as we do support xz uncompression in the D-I > initrd. udebs are already compressed with xz by default without further intervention when a current debhelper is installed. arch:all packages cannot be binNMUed, however. So if you did check the udeb in the archive and it's not xz-compressed, a no change upload with a current chroot should solve that. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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