I just updated to dpkg 1.17 and it now defaults to compressing data.tar with xz instead of gzip. That creates a problem when I'm remastering CD's for older versions of ubuntu.
Is there a way to tell dpkg-buildpackage to create data.tar.gz instead of xz? I tried -Zgzip
without success.
Related manpages:
-z, -Z
Passed unchanged to dpkg-source. See its manual page.
-Zcompression, --compression=compression
Specify the compression to use for created files (tarballs and diffs). Note that this option will not cause existing tarballs to be recompressed, it only affects new files. Supported values are: gzip, bzip2, lzma and xz. gzip is the default. xz is only supported since dpkg-dev 1.15.5.