Z compression not yet supported (Was: mk-origtargz)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 13.05.2014, 18:59 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 09:19:25AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > 
> > That works as intended (by me ;-)), and as documented:
> > 
> >        --compression [ gzip | bzip2 | lzma | xz ]
> >                 If --repack is used, or if the given file is a zip file,
> >                 ensure that the resulting file is compressed using the
> >                 given scheme. The default is gzip.
> 
> The attached patch (not yet fully) supports Z compression.  It would
> need also enabling this compression in
> 
>    libdpkg-perl: /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Compression.pm
> 
> While it seems a quite rare case I'd consider it useful to support this
> compression method as well.
> 
> Please tell me whether I should file a bug report.

you mean a bug report against libdpkg-perl? Sure, why not. Once it there
is support there you can apply the patch you propose.

Greetings,
Joachim

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