Re: why apt/dpkg not using bzip2
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:09:58AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > > That kind of packaging is a hack, and a very user unfriendly one. I'd like
> > > to have native bzip support, to have a lftp.orig.bz2.
> > lol, whoever said our source package format was user friendly to begin
> > with?
>
> Because a *normal* user can't easily unpack a debian source package any
> longer.
Um, sorry if I'm missing something, but I can do apt-get source <pkg>
as any user, and it downloads and unpacks the source for me nicely.
--
Alisdair McDiarmid alisdair@jml.net
[http://wasters.org/pubkey.asc perl -i.mac -p -e 's/\r/\n/smg;']
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
Reply to: