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fix: Use xz compression to restore Debian stable support #495

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@dominic-p dominic-p commented Jan 23, 2023

The default compression on deb packages seems to have changed to zstd. Unfortunately, Debian does not support zstd (yet), so this specifies a friendlier format.

Note that I don't know a good way to test this at the moment. I'm open to suggestions though.

Fixes #482

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The default compression on deb packages seems to have changed to zstd.
Unfortunately, Debian does not support zstd (yet), so this specifies a friendlier format.

Fixes twilio#482
@@ -81,7 +81,8 @@ PATH=$PATH:$PWD/bin eval $(PATH=$PATH:$PWD/bin node -p "require('./package').scr
await qq.chmod([workspace, 'usr/lib', config.dirname, 'bin', config.bin], 0o755);
await qq.chmod([workspace, 'DEBIAN/postinst'], 0o755);
await qq.x(`ln -s "../lib/${config.dirname}/bin/${config.bin}" "${workspace}/usr/bin/${pjson.oclif.bin}"`);
await qq.x(`dpkg --build "${workspace}" "${qq.join(dist, debArch(arch), `${versionedDebBase}.deb`)}"`);
// Use xz compression until Debian supports zstd (see issue #482)
await qq.x(`dpkg --build --compression=xz "${workspace}" "${qq.join(dist, debArch(arch), `${versionedDebBase}.deb`)}"`);
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--compression does not seems to be a valid flag in dpkg, could you confirm that this command works.

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Thanks for taking a look! You're right, that flag isn't valid. I saw it on a man page somewhere, but I must have been looking at the wrong command. I apologize for that.

I just pushed a commit that should fix it. As I said in the OP I don't really have a good environment to test this, but my understanding from here and here is that this should do the trick.

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sbansla commented Mar 2, 2023

I am testing this fix. Will update soon.

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