xz compression

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> Is xz save for being used in squeeze-backports? Just to be on the save
> side, I made this conditional, excluding squeeze-backports.

No worries there.  The dpkg that was released with squeeze already
supported xz compression.

> the .orig.tar.gz contains two .run files which are self extracting
> .tar.gz files, so swiching compression only marginally changes the size
> (tested on n-g-d, which will therefore stay a .tar.gz)

Oh, okay, I misread the get-orig-source target for nvidia-cuda-toolkit; I
thought it looked like it was unpacking the *.run files and building an
*.orig.tar.gz of the internal contents.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>