[dpkg] 56/187: debian: Stop compressing the dpkg.deb package with gzip

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commit 8765f379613cbaf8bd060719fdab4899a4e91608
Author: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
Date:   Tue Aug 9 03:03:13 2016 +0200

    debian: Stop compressing the dpkg.deb package with gzip
    
    There are only 5 remaining packages in the Debian base system that still
    compress with gzip, the rest are all using xz, so there is no point in
    making dpkg use gzip any longer.
---
 debian/changelog | 1 +
 debian/rules     | 5 +----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 9209919..ac7d4fd 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ dpkg (1.18.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Use perl:Depends via dh_perl instead of a hardcoded perl in Depends.
     - Remove unused dh_strip from binary_indep target.
     - Remove ancient upgrade code from maintainer scripts (before 1.15.x).
+    - Stop compressing the dpkg.deb package with gzip.
   * Documentation:
     - Update custom changelog parser API support status in README.api.
     - Fix typos in docs and man pages. Thanks to Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org>
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 1171a3e..8de6cf2 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -121,10 +121,7 @@ binary-arch: install
 	dh_shlibdeps -a
 	dh_gencontrol -a
 	dh_md5sums -a
-	# Make debootstrap life easier on non-Debian based systems by
-	# compressing dpkg.deb with gzip instead of xz.
-	dh_builddeb -pdpkg -- -Zgzip
-	dh_builddeb -a -Ndpkg
+	dh_builddeb -a
 
 # Put together the dpkg-dev package
 binary-indep: install

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