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

[James McCoy]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 06:59:57PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Joachim,
> 
> 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.

For completeness or because you actually have upstreams that use it?
If it's the latter, then I'm fine with adding it.  I doubt libdpkg-perl
will accept a patch for it though since that's not a valid compressor
for Debian packages.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>
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