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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:21:36AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > For sure.  Considering what I wrote above may be we should really use a
> > code copy - even if this will leave us with inventing workarounds for
> > 'comp_prog' and 'default_level'.  I have no idea how a clean solution
> > might look like.  I just would consider it quite handy to deal with *.Z
> > files by plain uscan without beeing forced to write a manual
> > get-orig-tar target.
> 
> We don’t change the default level anyways, so when/if we copy the
> module, we can simply drop support for handling compression levels. Yay
> for code simplification.
> 
> For comp_prog, we can use use compress from ncompress.

As I said in my other mail I think it makes sense to duplicate
(+simplify) this piece of code in Devscripts since adding a ncompress
dependency to dpkg does not make any sense to me. 

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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