Bug#718329: apt: Please add support for .deb with uncompressed data.tar member

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 12:07:00 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> At least the kernel team is currently using «dpkg-deb -Zgzip -z0» on
> linux-source-3.10, which generates an uncompressed data.tar.gz member
> (which TBH in a strict sense it's bogus for dpkg to create), because
> otherwise dak rejects uncompressed .deb data.tar members by way of
> python-apt, and finally libapt. dpkg-deb calls that “compressor” «none»,
> in case you'd like to have some term consistency.

Sorry, this seems to be somewhat outdated information, it appears as
if dak is rejecting these due to lintian, it *might* not be able to
process them afterwards due to python-apt and libapt anyway, but I've
not checked.

Although the Linux kernel team concerns are valid regardless as the
apt toolchain is unable to handle these, and there might be other
tools around too.

Thanks,
Guillem