Package: simple-cdd Version: 0.6.6 Severity: normal Currently dose-debcheck distcheck no longer works with gzip compressed Packages, see bug #905016 but on the other hand supports xz compressed Packages which offers better compression. Should be trivial to implement, see patch.
Thanks, Pascal
--- /usr/bin/build-simple-cdd 2018-07-30 19:38:46.299216952 +0200 +++ /home/pascal/build-simple-cdd 2018-07-30 19:39:51.998800124 +0200 @@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ packages_dirs = find_packages_dirs(dists_root, a) for pathname in packages_dirs: - bg_pkgfile = [os.path.join(i, "Packages.gz") for i in packages_dirs if i != pathname] + bg_pkgfile = [os.path.join(i, "Packages.xz") for i in packages_dirs if i != pathname] bg_command = [] for file in bg_pkgfile: @@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ command = [debcheck, "--failures", "--explain"] command.extend(bg_command) - pkgfile = os.path.join(pathname, "Packages.gz") + pkgfile = os.path.join(pathname, "Packages.xz") if not os.path.exists(pkgfile): continue command.append(pkgfile) output = io.StringIO()