Bug#458663: Missing support for data.tar.bz2-based debs
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 03:05:45PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:
> > What packages in the base system are trying to use data.tar.bz2 at the
> > moment?
>
> None, but aj noted that both debootstrap and cdebootstrap fail to
> unpack packages using bzip2. As dak accepts data.tar.bz2 now,
> bootstrapping could be broken by such an upload to base. This either
> needs to be fixed on the dak or on the debootstrap side - I for one
> would prefer allowing it everywhere, if possible.
We can fix it in debootstrap itself, but I'd rather not bloat d-i with
this ability when it's not necessary. (That said it might turn out that
some other consideration is more important than this; I just don't think
completism alone is enough.) Could we have a central sanity check that
prohibits this for Priority: required or important, maybe?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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