Re: bzip2 for source packages?
James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk> writes:
> 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).
You would just use gzip for those. Same with sources that don't
compress well with bzip2 or with sources, which maintainer don't like
bzip2.
Nobody should be forced to use it and nobody should be forced not to
use it.
> Having said that, I'm a lot less opposed to this idea than I am to the
> idea of using bzip2 for debs.
Good. :)
May the Source be with you.
Mrvn
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