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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:25:28PM +0800, mail6543210@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I was packaging a package.
> 
> And I set dpkg's option as "-z9 -Zlzma".
> 
> However, I got a error mail saying:
> 
> > Rejected:
> > Unable to identify file gnucash_2.6.5-1ppa1.debian.tar.lzma (gnome) in
> changes.
> > Further error processing not possible because of a critical previous
> error.
> 
> >From `man`, it says, the compression method can be "gzip, bzip2, lzma and
> xz(dpkg-dev>=1.15.5)".

We indeed don't support lzma compression of source packages right now.
The main reason for that is simply that it hasn't been necessary to
care; xz has superseded it for all practical purposes, and I don't ever
recall seeing any source packages from Debian containing
.debian.tar.lzma.  Do you have a particular reason to use lzma over xz?

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]