On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 08:57:14AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > : What are the thoughts about supporting .orig.tar.bz2 files? As > : the maintainer of FreeCiv (which is distributed as .tar.bz2 > : optionally) I would appreciate this a lot... > > I missed the beginning of this discussion, unless this is the beginning > ... > > Are you advocating packaging source as orig.tar.gz AND orig.tar.bz2, or > are you advocating bz2 OVER gz? The former burns up disk space which > many of our mirrors don't have an abundance of; the latter may > irritate some users. Allowing one or the other, based on the upstream or in the case of X sources, sanity. => (ie, maintainer choice)
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