Dear Valentin, all, Thanks for reporting issues you encounter and sorry for not responding earlier. On Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:29:24 +0100 Valentin Vidic <Valentin.Vidic@CARNet.hr> wrote: > autopkgtest fails when testing older distributions like wheezy. > The problem seems to be that autopkgtest-satdep.deb uses xz > compression not available in wheezy: Wheezy reached end of support by LTS recently, so I wonder if we shouldn't mark this bug as done. > autopkgtest [18:41:24]: ERROR: "dpkg --unpack /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.dxwzd3ea/downtmp/autopkgtest-satdep.deb" failed with stderr "dpkg-deb: error: archive '/tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.dxwzd3ea/downtmp/autopkgtest-satdep.deb' contains not understood data member control.tar.xz, giving up > dpkg: error processing /tmp/autopkgtest-lxc.dxwzd3ea/downtmp/autopkgtest-satdep.deb (--unpack): > subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 > > Setting the gzip compression fixes the issue: > > subprocess.check_call(['dpkg-deb', '-Zgzip', '-b', pkgdir, deb.host], So far I (we) didn't take over this patch to not make the code use old compression by default. This kind of legacy code does come with a price. What do others think? Paul
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