Compressing packages with bzip2 instead gzip?

[Paul Sladen]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I believe it already does do gzip -9.  How would this make "tricks like 
> debdiff" easier?

dpkg-deb uses zlib directly; it can end up passing different blocks than
gzip would produce;  therefore creating a different output stream, even if
the uncompressed data is indentical.

This is like using 'pkzip' or 'gzip';  The low-level internal algorithm is
the same and the end result indentical, but the encoding may differ.

	-Paul
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