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Re: some statistics on using bz2 for packages



On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 11:20:54PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> > I see no reason for more than one compression engine to be flagged essential.
> To have bzip2 support in dpkg, more than one compression engine would need to 
> be flagged essential. Either that, or gzip support in dpkg would have to be
> removed, which can't be done, no matter what the qualities of bzip2 
> compression.

libbz2 must be essential in that case.  Not necessarily the bzip2 binary.

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