Romain Francoise <rfrancoise@debian.org> writes:
> So my questions are:
>
> 1) If deb(5) is authoritative, am I right in thinking that bz2
> compression is a policy violation at the moment?
Yes and no. deb(5) is authorative but out of sync with the
implementation imho.
> 2) Doesn't the disappearance of 'data.tar.gz' warrant a bump of the
> binary version number, from 2.0 to, say, 3.0?
That sounds indeed like a bug. dpkg-deb bug?
MfG
Goswin