On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 13:52, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 - patch > > Hi! > > On Sat, 2016-06-18 at 23:19:16 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > > Here is tiny patch which adds new option dpkg-deb > --compress-program=<prog> > > Program is executed as a filter with single argument: compression level > -0 .. -9 > > The code is not reaping the child, nor closing the file descriptors, > Oh, maybe. I just slammed it together to show simple solution. There was no ready to use library solution for parallel compression. I was limited by the technology of my time. Maybe nowadays it is invented. > this is covered in fd_fd_filter(), but… > > > So, any existing parallel compression tool (pigz/pbzip2/pxz/pixz) > > could be used here. > > Of course compression type (-Z) must match. Such compression might not > > suit for official > > builds because it have lower ratio, but will save tons of time for > > building debug packages. > > …this is the main problem I have with such patch, that you can specify > any random program and it might or might not match the intended > compression. Also as stated previously several of these tool generate > output that is not ideal anyway. > Well, misconfiguration isn't a big deal. Dpkg could easily validate magic afterwards. Just to be clear - I have zero interest now. That's trivial matter, so anybody could finish that. > > Thanks, > Guillem >
