On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 05:50:50PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> I took the (immense amount of) time do some real testing on using bz2 for
> packages.
Just a note that no one seems to have mentioned: this requires making
bzip2 essential, at least for packages compressed with bzip2. Having
those packages Pre-Depend on bzip2 isn't even entirely strong enough ---
dpkg can't even cope with a dpkg-dev --contents request without bzip2
installed. Adding `dpkg [Pre-]Depends: bzip2' would fix it, though. (dpkg
doesn't currently formally depend on gzip, however)
Cheers,
aj
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