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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: deb-pkg: add KDEB_SOURCE_COMPRESS to specify compression type
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On Thu, 2023-04-20 at 16:17 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 5:34 AM Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> wrote:
[...]
> > > +KDEB_SOURCE_COMPRESS ?= gzip
> >
> > According to dpkg-source(1), xz is the default compression for deb
> > source format >= 2. Shouldn't we use xz here by default as well?
>
>
> Yes.
> xz is the default because we switched to format 3.0 (quilt).
>
> But, we used gzip for a long time, so I did not change it
> in this commit.
>
>
> I do not have a strong opinion.
>
> Ben (debian kernel maintainer) is in the CC list,
> perhaps he has some preference.

I think it makes sense to keep source compression unchanged in this
commit, but you could add another commit to change the default.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice - John Levine
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