[CC'ing Hans-Christoph in case he isn't following this list] On 12-05-16 at 02:47pm, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> writes: > > > Adam Borowski wrote: > >> Could you please mention which ones do not? And if so, how are > >> they relevant/are they fixable? > > > > As one of the maintainers of debootstrap, I am perhaps more aware > > than some how broadly it's used. Ok.. > > > > They use it on Android (41,600 hits including > > http://evilzone.org/android/debian-on-android/) > > They use it on Nokia (96,600 hits) > > They use it on Nook (14,000 hits) > > They use it on headless old Red Hat systems in a datacenter > > somewhere > > They use it on Debian oldstable systems, where xz-utils is not even > > packaged. > > They use it on absolutely modern peices of unusual kit that ship > > with some crufty busybox binary (no source naturally) from far up > > the supplier chain, that was built well before xz support entered > > busybox in 2010. > > How are they relevant? Where do they download and unpack udebs? Where > is busybox used to unpack debs?
Perhaps this example is relevant: http://guardianproject.info/code/lildebi/ @Hans-Christoph: Does that project use a debootstrap without xz support, and would its tricks break if Debian was to switch to compress its binary packages with xz instead of gzip? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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