Add data.tar.xz support

Bug #619152 reported by Colin Watson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Low
Colin Watson

Bug Description

dpkg 1.15.6 added support for data.tar.xz members of .deb packages. Launchpad should support uploads using this.

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Changed in soyuz:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
tags: added: soyuz-upload
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

Jelmer, can you see how much work this is to fix please? If it's not much we might consider doing it as part of your upcoming changes to the upload processor.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

I pushed up a branch for this as lp:~cjwatson/launchpad/dpkg-xz-support-619152; would welcome a review.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) wrote :

Somebody PLEASE review the branch. It's a really basic and needed feature and the fix is awaiting review for 8 months already!

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

We're on the home stretch now. Details are in the merge proposal.

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Launchpad QA Bot (lpqabot) wrote :
Changed in launchpad:
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
tags: added: qa-needstesting
Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

Works fine on DF.

tags: added: qa-ok
removed: qa-needstesting
William Grant (wgrant)
Changed in launchpad:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Oibaf (oibaf) wrote :

It isn't working here:
https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/test/+build/2746453

I changed lzma to xz and also added:
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6)

to every binary section of my package.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 619152] Re: Add data.tar.xz support

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:05:20AM -0000, Oibaf wrote:
> I changed lzma to xz and also added:
> Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6)

Actually, you added Pre-Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.15.6). Make that dpkg
rather than dpkg-dev.

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Oibaf (oibaf) wrote :

It works indeed, sorry for the noise.

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