Bug#458663: gz/bz2/xz for debootstrap data.tar

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Monday 16 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> wrote:
> > This anticipates the eventuality of data.tar.xz.
>
> I've commited your patch in SVN; even though it is not yet clear that
> .bz2 data.tar are going to be accepted for base packages I see now
> reason to now support it in debootstrap leaving this decision to FTP
> masters.

Have you thought this through?

Have you considered Joey's arguments that as a distribution we should not 
*want* to support multiple compression methods in debootstrap because the 
decompressors may not be available?

How will debootstrap react when the decompressors are not available?

If you do add this to SVN, shouldn't you also add a dependency on the 
decompressors?

Please don't commit patches blindly.

Cheers,
FJP