Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?
Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Drew Parsons wrote:
>> Do we have plans for lenny to enable the use of bzip2 instead of gzip
>> for the upstream orig.tar source tarballs? Does dpkg/apt support this
>> already or has this already been thought about?
[...]
> A more compelling reason is that some upstreams only distribute in
> bz2, and this would enable us to distribute the actual upstream
> version without repacking.
[...]
AOL!!!
See <http://bugs.debian.org/382673>. Lenny's dpkg-source can already exctract
foo_0.5.9-1.diff.gz foo_0.5.9-1.dsc foo_0.5.9.orig.tar.bz2, however
the coresponding support for generating these beasts in
dpkg-buildpackage is missing.
cu andreas
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