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Re: kernel-linux-*, generic build process



On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Daniel Burrows wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:28:55PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > 	I notice you maintain a number of packages; perhaps you had
> >  better check and undo any repacking you may be doing. I am surprised
> >  you missed out on the pristine source recommendation.
>
>   It's still necessary to repack if upstream only distributes .bz2,
> right?  (or did dpkg-source add bz2 support while I wasn't looking? :) )

dbs supports bz2.

and dpkg-source v2 will.  But that's not out yet.  And when it is out, it'll
be years before we can use it(the new dpkg-source will have to be in a stable
version of debian before it's features can be used).




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