Re: bzip2 for source packages?

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Subject: Re: bzip2 for source packages?
From: James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Apr 1998 18:40:30 +0100
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In-reply-to: Michael Alan Dorman's message of "18 Apr 1998 13:31:46 -0400"
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Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@law.miami.edu> writes:

> Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be
> appropriate, though?

By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to use pristine
upstream source (since the vast majority of source stills comes in
.tar.gz form).

Having said that, I'm a lot less opposed to this idea than I am to the
idea of using bzip2 for debs.

-- 
James

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