Bug#818574: dose : does not support xz input files
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 09:41:42 +0200 Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 09:11:29 +0100 Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr> wrote:
> > the dose services on qa.debian.org currently do not support xz input files.
>
> while there is no libxz binding for ocaml yet, ben uses Sys.command to execute
> zcat, bzcat and xzcat on demand for compressed files. Maybe a similar scheme
> could be implemented in dose3?
>
> Thanks!
>
> cheers, josch
Hi,
Is there any news on this bug?
It is my understanding that the FTP masters want to retire Packages.gz
shortly before the Stretch release.
Thanks,
~Niels
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