Z compression not yet supported (Was: mk-origtargz)

Andreas Tille tille at debian.org
Wed May 14 09:51:57 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:33:06AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On 2014-05-14 10:03, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >When trying to prepare a patch for scripts/Dpkg/Compression.pm I
> >think we
> >get a problem since it seems an implementation of /usr/bin/compress is
> >lacking in Debian.
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/ncompress

Ahh, right.  On the other hand this might add a dependency of dpkg from
ncompress which is most probably not wanted.

What do you think?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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