Re: udeb and data.tar.xz files?
On 2012-05-14 21:16, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I'm very confused about what the status is regarding udeb and
> data.tar.xz. Are they allowed or not? It seems at the moment that
> dh_builddeb is creating them by default, and lintian is complaining that
> this is an error.
>
> I've done a search through the web and debian-devel and it looks like
> things are in transition. That is, there are people hoping that the
> udeb infrastruction will support xz compression, and even an assertion
> that the lintian complaint is not obsolete and those references *appear*
> newer than references to the udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball error.
>
> Or I could be conservative and hard code something explicit in
> debian/rules to force dh_builddeb to pass -Zgzip to dpkg-deb, but that
> will be ugly, and risks being obsolete at some point.
>
> Can someone tell me what's up, and ideally update the text at:
>
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/udeb-uses-non-gzip-data-tarball.html
>
> ... so developers can know what to do?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> - Ted
>
>
Hi,
Lintian is outdated (#664600) and the fix has been commited to the git
repository[1]
~Niels
[1]
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commitdiff;h=ec4e5cbf5ceea35db5948be21d3b03d696607b0f
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