diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index bd86899fa..dc2c9cd2e 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  - improved the exim package to honor prefix, made it jail-able
  - improvements and some tiny clenups in misc/jailing
  - the stone isntall module now lists the guessed partition content
+ - Mathieu: (real) support for .Z files, fix for dcc
 
 *) 2003-09-14 (2.0.0-rc1 - 2.0.0-rc2)
 
diff --git a/package/sirkull/dcc/dcc.conf b/package/sirkull/dcc/dcc.conf
index 3b0697b1c..b00ad43f9 100644
--- a/package/sirkull/dcc/dcc.conf
+++ b/package/sirkull/dcc/dcc.conf
@@ -24,15 +24,3 @@ if [ $prefix_auto = 1 ] ; then
         prefix="opt/dcc"
         set_confopt
 fi
-
-dcc_custmain() {
-	tar zxf $archdir/dcc-dccd-$ver.tar.Z
-	cd dcc-dccd-$ver
-	./configure $confopt
-	$MAKE
-	$MAKE install
-}
-
-autoextract=0
-custmain="dcc_custmain"
-
diff --git a/package/sirkull/dcc/dcc.desc b/package/sirkull/dcc/dcc.desc
index 03cdb4f81..f1e256946 100644
--- a/package/sirkull/dcc/dcc.desc
+++ b/package/sirkull/dcc/dcc.desc
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
 
 [L] BSD
 [S] Stable
-[V] 1.2.1
+[V] 1.2.6
 [P] X -----5---9 238.000
 
-[D] 1814987215 dcc-dccd-1.2.1.tar.Z http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/source/
+[D] 3398545870 dcc-dccd-1.2.6.tar.Z http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/source/
 
diff --git a/scripts/Build-Pkg b/scripts/Build-Pkg
index 797dc947b..b857e8978 100755
--- a/scripts/Build-Pkg
+++ b/scripts/Build-Pkg
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ abort() {
 	(
 		set -e
 		for xsrctar in $( echo "$desc_D" | tr ' ' '\t' | \
-			tr -s '\t' | cut -f2 | sed 's,.\(t\?\)gz$,.\1bz2,' )
+			tr -s '\t' | cut -f2 | sed 's,.\(t\?\)\(gz\|Z\)$,.\1bz2,' )
 		do
 			if [ ! -f $archdir/$xsrctar ]; then
 				echo "File not found: ${archdir#$base/}/$xsrctar"
diff --git a/scripts/Create-CkSumPatch b/scripts/Create-CkSumPatch
index f4f3ed20c..6844263fd 100755
--- a/scripts/Create-CkSumPatch
+++ b/scripts/Create-CkSumPatch
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ echo -n > cksum.patch
 ./scripts/Download -list-cksums | grep '^00* ' | \
 while read cksum gzfile ; do
 
-   bzfile="`echo "$gzfile" | sed 's,\.\(t\?\)gz$,.\1bz2,'`"
+   bzfile="`echo "$gzfile" | sed 's,\.\(t\?\)\(gz\|Z\)$,.\1bz2,'`"
 
    if [ -f "$bzfile" ]
    then
diff --git a/scripts/Download b/scripts/Download
index d9caaeb4d..c17cdfbfe 100755
--- a/scripts/Download
+++ b/scripts/Download
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ download_file() {
 	# Make src directory for creating tar balls
 	mkdir -p src/
 	# Tar ball file name:
-	bzfile="`echo "$gzfile" | sed 's,\.\(t\?\)gz$,.\1bz2,'`"
+	bzfile="`echo "$gzfile" | sed 's,\.\(t\?\)\(gz\|Z\)$,.\1bz2,'`"
 	# Lock file name:
 	lkfile="src/down.lockfile.`echo $bzfile | tr / -`"
 
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ download_file() {
 	# Convert a .gz to .bz2 and test checksum
 	#
 	if [ "$gzfile" != "$bzfile" ] ; then
-		echo "gzip->bzip2 + cksum-test: $gzfile"
+		echo "bzip'ing + cksum-test: $gzfile"
 		gunzip < "$gzfile" > src/down.$$.dat
 		if cksum_chk src/down.$$.dat $cksum "$gzfile" ; then
 			bzip2 < src/down.$$.dat > "$bzfile" ; rm -f "$gzfile"
diff --git a/scripts/functions b/scripts/functions
index f7dd3fddf..beadbf49b 100644
--- a/scripts/functions
+++ b/scripts/functions
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ build_this_package() {
 		#
 		if [ $srctar = auto ] ; then
 			xsourceballs=$( echo "$desc_D" | head -1 | tr ' ' '\t' | tr -s '\t' | \
-				cut -f2 | sed 's,.\(t\?\)gz$,.\1bz2,' )
+				cut -f2 | sed 's,.\(t\?\)\(gz\|Z\)$,.\1bz2,' )
 			if [ -z "$xsourceballs" ] ; then
 				echo "Can't auto-detect srctar for package '$pkg'!"
 				false
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ build_this_package() {
 		fi
 	else
 		sourceballs=$( echo "$desc_D" | tr ' ' '\t' | tr -s '\t' | \
-			cut -f2 | sed 's,.\(t\?\)gz$,.\1bz2,' )
+			cut -f2 | sed 's,.\(t\?\)\(gz\|Z\)$,.\1bz2,' )
 		xsrcpattern=$( echo "$desc_SRC" | tr ' ' '\t' | tr -s '\t' | tr '\t' '\n' )
 		xsourceballs=$( echo "$sourceballs" | grep -F "$xsrcpattern" )
 	fi