Re: Upstream stopped to ship tar.gz file. What to do?
"Artur R. Czechowski" <arturcz@snafu.pl> writes:
> Upstream of imms stopped to ship tar.gz file and ships only tar.bz2.
> However, there is no new upstream release at the moment. The question
> is: Shall I prepare new release of Debian package using tar.bz2
> tarball?
> There was a short discussion on #debian-devel, but there was no conclusion.
> Possible answers are:
> 1. Definitely, if possible you shall keep the tarball the same as upstream
> tarball (unless other concerns are involved, like, for example, DFSG
> compliancy).
> 2. Absolutely not. Just stick to current tarball and switch when new upstream
> release will be available.
I'd go with 2. I don't see any need to hurry with replacing the tarball
with a bzip2-compressed version until upstream releases a new release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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