This one time, at band camp, Frans Pop said: > Mark Hymers wrote: > > I think there's some confusion here between source and binary formats. > > The announcement was referring to bzip2 when used as part of a source > > upload. As far as I can tell from looking in the git logs, dak has > > supported data.tar.bz2 since 2005, so I'm surprised that this has never > > been an issue before if debootstrap can't handle it. > > Then can you (or someone else) please explain what exactly is meant by the > reference to bzip2 for binary packages in the following quote from the > original mail: > > ! You can use either gzip as usual or bzip2 for the compression within > ! the binary packages - and now also for the source files. I suspect it might have been better worded as: In addition to being able to use gzip or bzip2 for compression within the binary packages, you can now also use them for source files. That was my reading of it, at any rate. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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