Hi, are there plans on the dpkg side to support other compression methods for the control.tar in .deb files? Some of the d-i udebs have large debconf templates which are only compressed with gzip, while xz would yield smaller udebs. Case in point: % ls -l netcfg_1.101_amd64.udeb -rw-r--r-- 1 pkern pkern 419350 Nov 3 21:48 netcfg_1.101_amd64.udeb % ar x netcfg_1.101_amd64.udeb % ls -l control.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 pkern pkern 393965 Nov 3 21:53 control.tar.gz % gunzip -c control.tar.gz | xz > control.tar.xz % ls -l control.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 pkern pkern 264616 Nov 3 21:53 control.tar.xz % rm netcfg_1.101_amd64.udeb % ar rc netcfg_1.101_amd64.udeb debian-binary control.tar.xz data.tar.xz % ls -l netcfg_1.101_amd64.udeb -rw-r--r-- 1 pkern pkern 290000 Nov 3 21:54 netcfg_1.101_amd64.udeb As far as I know control.tar.gz is hardcoded in various places, though. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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