Re: Base binary packages using xz instead of gzip
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 01:57:10PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 01, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
> > with COMP=xz gives 145 packages, with COMP=gz it gives 21. So I guess
> > it would make sense to decide if people still care about bootstrapping
> > from other systems where xz-utils might not be available. I think a
>
> Not at all.
> If anybody really cares then I suggest that they add support for xzdec
> to debootstrap.
debootstrap has supported data.tar.xz since 2010. The thing that's
relevant here, which is outside our control, is whether the non-Debian
systems from which one might be running debootstrap have xz-utils
available.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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