[PATCH] dpkg & dpkg_deb: don't depend on FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ

[Jody Bruchon]

On 2017-01-06 13:23, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Kang-Che Sung <explorer09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> CONFIG_DPKG and CONFIG_DPKG_DEB unnecessarily depend on
>> CONFIG_FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ. Worse, it has been using "select" clause,
>> which would prevent FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ from being unselect-able when
>> using "make config" without a .config file:
>>
>>      $ rm .config
>>      $ make config
>>      [Answer N to almost every boolean choice, and observe that
>>      FEATURE_SEAMLESS_GZ cannot be unselected.]
>>
>> Because the C code of both dpkg and dpkg-deb are already aware of no-GZ
>> configuration, it's safe to remove that dependency.
> My understanding is that .deb files usually use .gz compression,
> and building dpkg without support for .gz results in a useless tool:
> there are no .deb files which it can process.
Debian packages support gzip or xz for the control.tar file and a 
variety of common compression formats for the data.tar file.