[debhelper-devel] Bug#778927: dh_compress: Please do not compress xz compressed files

[Andreas Tille]

Package: debhelper
Severity: normal

Hi,

since #671544 is not yet fixed I tried to compress some large text files
that profit heavily from xz compression in an override before calling
dh_compress:

override_dh_compress:
	xz --best debian/$(pkg)/usr/share/doc/$(pkg)/largefile
	dh_compress


The surprising result was that I ended up with

    /usr/share/doc/$(pkg)/largefile.xz.gz

files in the package and thus was forced to use

override_dh_compress:
	xz --best debian/$(pkg)/usr/share/doc/$(pkg)/largefile
	dh_compress --exclude=.xz

This result is surprising since bz2 compressed files are not gzipped by
dh_compress.  So please do not compress .xz files.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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