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Bug#834867: lintian: Please allow uniformly compressed .debs in Debian



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Guillem Jover writes:
> As proposed on debian-devel [P], I'd like to switch dpkg-deb to
> generate uniformly compressed .debs by default soon. This would
> require for ftpmasters to agree, for lintian to stop emitting
> autoreject tags and I guess for a backport to be installed in
> ftp-master. I'm CCing ftpmasters so that they can voice in.
>
>   [P] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/07/msg00114.html>

Guillem said that this is already supported by tools in stable.  So I
think using xz for the control.tar member is okay.

Ansgar


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