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[Bug 426086] Re: Installing xz-utils: You are about to do something potentially harmful.

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From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:09:03 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 426086 <426086@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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dpkg will no longer depend on lzma in maverick, once this change has
built:

dpkg (1.15.7.2ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
[...]

 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> Thu, 20 May 2010 15:41:52 +0100

[...]

dpkg (1.15.6) experimental; urgency=low

[...]
  [ Guillem Jover ]
[...]
  * Add support for xz compressed data.tar member of binary packages. Add
    xz-utils to dpkg's Pre-Depends. Closes: #542160
    Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for the initial patch.
  * Use xz command to handle lzma compressed files in dpkg and dpkg-dev.
    This removes the lzma package from both dpkg and dpkg-dev dependencies.
[...]

 -- Guillem Jover <guillem@xxxxxxxxxx> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:15:31 +0100

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Fix Released

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Installing xz-utils: You are about to do something potentially harmful.
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