Bug#458663: gz/bz2/xz for debootstrap data.tar
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> 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?
Yes; and I agree that Debian shouldn't support it _but_ it does't mean
deboostrap cannot support it.
> How will debootstrap react when the decompressors are not available?
It is going to output an error ... "File not found!" :-)
> If you do add this to SVN, shouldn't you also add a dependency on the
> decompressors?
No since it is not supported by Debian ATM; we're going to have
support on the "code" for it and derivatives can use it if desired but
I don't think we ought to add depends on something that is not used.
> Please don't commit patches blindly.
I did not.
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