Re: bzip2 X
In article <[🔎] 19980419230406.21011@hazel> you wrote:
: Hmm... it's actually probably a good idea to bzip2 the X sources.
: They're monstrous.
Probably a good idea. However...
The right way to handle this is for someone to broach the subject of using
compressors other than gzip for source packages over on debian-policy. At
the same time, take up the issue with the dpkg maintainers since dpkg-source
will need to be updated.
As maintainer of gzip for Debian, I do not agree that having gzip fork a
bzip2 when it sees a bzip2 magic number is a good idea. If we want to support
multiple compression engines, I believe this should be handled in dpkg-source.
Bdale
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