The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit d538ec838e7a0160911a52d4d96fbf6de4b084ac
Author: Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org>
Date: Sun Jun 17 11:37:47 2012 +0200
build: Switch source compression to xz
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index aef391b..ce12e1b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.8 foreign nostdinc])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.8 foreign nostdinc no-dist-gzip dist-xz])
m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])],
[AC_SUBST([AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY], [1])])
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9260480..eb3ef9e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ dpkg (1.16.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Document in deb-src-control(5) the “Private-” field prefix.
* Add new start-stop-daemon --no-close option to disable closing file
descriptors on --background. Closes: #627333, #64642
+ * Switch source compression to xz.
[ Updated dpkg translations ]
* Swedish (Peter Krefting).
diff --git a/debian/source/options b/debian/source/options
index 5b1ccf3..f973ce5 100644
--- a/debian/source/options
+++ b/debian/source/options
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# Use bzip2 compression by default, we save 2.5Mb
-compression = "bzip2"
+# Use xz compression by default, we save 4.6 MiB
+compression = "xz"
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