Re: Question: Packages.xz and Contents-<arch>.xz
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Guillem Jover wrote:
> 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.
More like it should be in standard nowadays, along with bzip2.
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