Hi! As no opposing arguments were brought up I went ahead and now both changes are in dpkg's git tree.
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 00:15:10 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > First, I'd like to change the dpkg Pre-Depends from lzma to xz-utils, > the latter is a bit bigger in size (lzma 172 KiB; xz-utils 504 KiB, > 160 KiB in share/doc/ and liblzma2 304 KiB, 124 KiB in share/doc/) but > it supports both “.lzma” and “.xz” formats, in the imminent future > dpkg-deb will get switched to directly use liblzma-dev so that one will > disappear, Jonathan Nieder has already sent some patches for that, they > need some changes first, so probably after next release (after 1.15.6). <http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=9bb208a8> <http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=54be5479> > Second, I'd like to switch from statically to dynamically linking > against zlib and libbz2, eventually liblzma too (affecting dpkg-deb) > and libselinux (affecting dpkg itself only on Linux). Here's the > arguments I know of against and in favour, with rebuttals: <http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=8cf1ec61> regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100227025546.gd27...@gaara.hadrons.org