Re: bzip2 for source packages?

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@law.miami.edu> wrote:
> Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be
> appropriate, though?

Not as the only format -- even the linux kernel is available in gzipped
tar.

I'm sorry, but the source format is needed in a far wider range of 
contexts than the .deb format.  And, some of the machines where I've
pulled down sources to take a look at them were quite small.

-- 
Raul


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