Binary diffs for deb files

[James Hall]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:26 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Good point; it wouldn't quite be trivial.  We could recompress the debs
> using gzip after the build, I suppose, but is there any particular reason
> why dpkg needs to use zlib?  It already relies on external tools of similar
> ubiquity (e.g., GNU tar), and forking gzip is typically faster on
> multiprocessor machines like our buildds.

If dpkg-deb used gzip and ar I'm sure that would solve my checksum
problems for creating diffs of the uncompressed data.

James