Re: Stop archive bloat: 47MB gmt-coast-full_19991001-1.deb
On Oct 20, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do
> > anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of
> > us an idea of what is the problem or (possibly) what I am
> > getting wrong?
>
> (a) There's not much point changing policy when the code's not written.
> (b) IIRC the policy proposal *requires* .bz2 compression for all sources,
> rather than just allowing it, which isn't ideal.
When the proposal was being discussed, we reached a consensus that it
ought to be allowed but not required. So the only real issue is (a),
writing the code.
Chris
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