build: Allow changing the default dpkg-deb compressor on configure

This will allow downstreams to choose something better than gzip as
their default compressor, for example xz. Or when xz becomes the
default to revert back to something else.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dpkg-deb/main.c b/dpkg-deb/main.c
index cac983453..9c5bf8bdb 100644
--- a/dpkg-deb/main.c
+++ b/dpkg-deb/main.c
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ set_deb_new(const struct cmdinfo *cip, const char *value)
 }
 
 struct compress_params compress_params = {
-  .type = compressor_type_gzip,
+  .type = DPKG_DEB_DEFAULT_COMPRESSOR,
   .strategy = compressor_strategy_none,
   .level = -1,
 };