Repacking Debian .deb package using different compression

Just a quick howto on repacking Debian .deb package from one compression to the other.

1. Create a temporary directory:
   mkdir ./tmp
2. Extract the package contents:
   dpkg --extract package.deb ./tmp
3. Extract the control files (must be done to a directory called DEBIAN):
   dpkg --control package.deb ./tmp/DEBIAN
4. Create the new package (-Z accepts gzip, bzip2, xz and none):
   dpkg-deb --build -Zgzip ./tmp package_gzip.deb
5. Profit.