Bug#686325: src:iceweasel: please use xz compression for binary packages

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at debian.org
Fri Aug 31 07:15:43 UTC 2012


Source: iceweasel
Version: 10.0.6esr-2
Severity: important
Usertags: xz-for-wheezy

Please use xz compression for the binary packages.  We are trying to fit
a few more packages on the first CDs to get a usable desktop install
with it, see [1] for more details.

Iceweasel wasn't on my initial list, but having a supported browser on
CD1 should be fairly important.

Just adding

  override_dh_builddeb:
          dh_builddeb -- -Zxz

to debian/rules should be enough for this.  You can look for a
data.tar.xz member using 'ar t *.deb' to be sure, also xulrunner-10.0
should only need ~9.2 MB (before: ~12 MB) and xulrunner-10.0-dbg only
95 MB (before: 155 MB).

Regards,
Ansgar

[1] <http://lists.debian.org/87wr1eahs1.fsf@deep-thought.43-1.org>



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