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commit 6f4209e478c76f96b49def24e83db88ed88395d4 Author: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Date: Sun Sep 24 18:16:10 2017 +0200 debian: Remove ancient code recompressing alternatives database backups The code converted the backups from xz to gzip in the dpkg daily cron job due to a short-lived change that compressed the database backups in xz. --- debian/changelog | 2 ++ debian/dpkg.cron.daily | 11 ----------- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 766dbd0..5c135ea 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ dpkg (1.19.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium - Switch to debhelper compatibility level 10. - Split alternatives logrotate into its own configuration file to help downstreams and derivatives. + - Remove ancient code recompressing the alternatives database backups + from xz to gzip in the dpkg daily cron job. * Test suite: - Enable perlcritic Documentation::RequirePodSections and Miscellanea::ProhibitTies. diff --git a/debian/dpkg.cron.daily b/debian/dpkg.cron.daily index c0aefb8..0a6b05e 100644 --- a/debian/dpkg.cron.daily +++ b/debian/dpkg.cron.daily @@ -25,17 +25,6 @@ if cd /var/backups ; then # The alternatives database is independent from the dpkg database. dbalt=alternatives - # Switch the alternatives database backups from xz to gzip, as the latter - # is Essential and we can rely on it being always present, using xz here - # is not worth the trouble, disk space savings, or possible additional - # dependencies. - for dbseq in `seq 1 6` ; do - dbfile=${dbalt}.tar.${dbseq} - [ -e "${dbfile}.xz" ] || continue - unxz ${dbfile}.xz - gzip -9 $dbfile - done - # XXX: Ideally we'd use --warning=none instead of discarding stderr, but # as of GNU tar 1.27.1, it does not seem to work reliably (see #749307). if ! test -e ${dbalt}.tar.0 || -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git
