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Change deb file compression algorithm

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deb-compression.sh

	COMP=gzip
	for i in *.deb; do
	echo "$i"
	mkdir "$i.extract"
	dpkg-deb -R "$i" "$i.extract"
	rm "$i"
	dpkg-deb -b "-Z$COMP" "$i.extract" "$i"
	rm -rf "$i.extract"
	done

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XMB5 commented Sep 18, 2018 •

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-Zcompress-type
        Specify which compression type to use when building a package.
        Allowed values are gzip, xz, bzip2 (deprecated), lzma (deprecated),
        and none (default is xz).

https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/dpkg/dpkg-deb.1.en.html

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