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Re: On bz2 compression in debs



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



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