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Re: Base binary packages using xz instead of gzip



On Sep 01, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:

> > 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.
I know, but if systems on which xz-utils is not easily available really 
exist then the interested parties could replace it with xzdec which is 
small and statically linked.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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