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Re: Suggestion to and how to alow different compression for .debs



Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Whats complicated about using uncompress.sh instead of gzip and
> fallback to gzip if not present?

Tons of things. What about programs called in uncompress.sh -- are
dependancies supposed to be fullfilled then? What happens when the script
fails? What if you don't trust debian, but want to unpack a debian package
anyway, without running any scripts from it?

What about speed?

> The gain would be bzip2 compression

BenC has already implemented this, from what I hear.

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