Bug#159877: apt-ftparchive needs to support bzip2 and stored data.tar compression types

[Adam Heath <doogie@brainfood.com>]

Package: apt-utils
Severity: wishlist

I have recently added support to dpkg-dev 1.11, for configuable compression
types of the data member in debs.  I encode the type in the deb by way of
changing the extension of the filename.

The types I support are gzip(default), bzip2, and stored.  Their extensions
are .gz, .bz2, and nothing(ie, data.tar).

There is code in dpkg HEAD that can link to libz and libbz2 statically or
dynamically, or call external gzip/bzip2 binaries.  apt-ftparchive should
probably do something similiar.