Re: tzdata_2013d-1_all.deb contains data.tar.xz instead of data.tar.gz
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 09:24:40PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:08:47PM +0300, Denis Drahnya wrote:
> >
> > I has checked tzdata_2013d-1_all.deb, it contains data.tar.xz instead of
> > data.tar.gz.
>
> This is the new defaults tarball since dpkg 1.17.0. Crosshurd has to be
> updated to handle that.
Wasn't there some mention of packages within a certain priority
threshold needing to manually specify gzip so that debootstrap and
other similar tools wouldn't need to pull in xz and could run on
the widest set of platforms possible?
... Adam
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