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Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?



On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 12:12:00 +1000, 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?

As other people have replied etch's dpkg supports unpacking source
and binary packages with gzip, bzip2 and lzma. The compression support
will probably be added in 1.14.1 or so alongisde Wig&Pen. There's few
items still pending before the 1.14.0 release.

regards,
guillem



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