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



Previously sparc porters wrote:
> For this reason, we should not allow arbitrary compression tools to be
> used.

Let me give another good reason why using a uncompress.sh script is
something I will never accept: it means that unpacking a package in
an arbitrary location is no longer a guaranteed safe action, since
uncompress.sh could do something nasty.

Wichert.

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