Comment 10 for bug 426086

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:
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 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Thu, 20 May 2010 15:41:52 +0100

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dpkg (1.15.6) experimental; urgency=low

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  [ Guillem Jover ]
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  * 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.
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 -- Guillem Jover <email address hidden> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:15:31 +0100