Re: Switching default dpkg-source compressor for V2+ formats to xz

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 03:52:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I'd like to switch the default dpkg-source compressor to xz for V2+
> (not for V1) source formats, as suggested by Ansgar Burchardt in [0].
> 
>   [0] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00377.html>
> 
> After having switched the default dpkg-deb compressor to xz in 1.17.0,
> it only makes sense to update the new source formats too, more so when
> an increasing number of packages are getting switched manually. And
> given that there should be less of an issue wrt compatibility with
> other systems, compared to .deb packages.
> 
> So if there's no strong opposition, this would probably happen around
> dpkg 1.17.3 or thereabouts.

I've queued this now locally, targetting dpkg 1.17.6.

Thanks,
Guillem