Re: Question: Packages.xz and Contents-<arch>.xz

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 17:11:02 +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 does as its changelog tells us.
> Note through that it needs the 'xz' binary for that (as it did for bzip2,
>  that changed just yet with the usage of libbz2 now for wheezy and as
>  usual people complain about it …). xz is priority required though so
> this is most likely not that much of an issue as it was for bzip2.

Although xz-utils is currently priority required, it should really go
back to optional, as dpkg stopped Pre-Depending on it some time ago.

thanks,
guillem