Lintian tag: uses-deprecated-compression-for-data-tarball

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The data portion of this binary package uses a deprecated compression
format. Although dpkg will support extracting such binary packages for the
foreseeable future, creating them will eventually be disallowed. A warning
is emitted for lzma since dpkg 1.16.4, and for bzip2 since dpkg 1.17.7.

For lzma, xz is the direct replacement. For bzip2 either gzip or xz can be
used as a substitute, depending on the wanted properties: gzip for maximum
compatibility and speed, and xz for maximum compression ratio.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: deb-format

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