On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog writes ("Bug#456332: dpkg could use an elevated pre-depends
> or depends on lzma"):
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > IMO the lzma binary package should Provide a new virtual package name,
> > > lzma-deb-support or some such. Packages could Pre-Depend on that.
> >
> > What does it bring?
>
> I assume you mean why do it like that. The answer is that you don't
> need the lzma support in cases where it's not needed. The
> dependencies are more accurate.
You don't need a virtual package for that. You just need to have each
package depend on the right decompressor.
I would only be in favor of that if we modify dpkg to auto-generate that
dependency, unfortunately right now we only know how to compress when
"dpkg-deb -b -Z<something>" is called and this is after dpkg-gencontrol
obviously.
Cheers,
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