Re: tzdata_2013d-1_all.deb contains data.tar.xz instead of data.tar.gz
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 06:55:48PM -0600, Adam Conrad wrote:
> 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?
>
Maybe, but it's not what has been implemented nor what is in the
changelog.
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