Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

2011-07-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 21:56:29 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: That said if you want to avoid it, what are the base packages where it must absolutely be avoided? All essential + their (transitive) dependencies? Seems like it's Priority: required (and dependencies) + binutils (for the

Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

2011-07-24 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 08:43, Raphaël Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Please can you add support for XZ-compressed .deb and/or tell us which package should not use XZ compression so that we can modify them to hardcode gzip usage? It seems XZ support has been included in 1.0.21, as can be

Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

2011-07-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi Otavio, On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Otavio Salvador wrote: It seems XZ support has been included in 1.0.21, as can be seen at: Yeah but debian-installer doesn't have bzip2 and xz in the host so it's not really useful... you saw the recent bugs when libacl used bz2 compression. About the use of

Bug#634248: debootstrap: Add support for XZ compressed binary packages

2011-07-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.32 Severity: wishlist User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: xz-compression Hello, we discussed some time ago on debian-devel (in a ftpmaster-related thread) the possiblity to switch dpkg-deb to generate XZ-compressed debs by default. ftp-master.debian.org