Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification

[Xavier <yadd@debian.org>]

Le 07/06/2019 à 09:48, Mo Zhou a écrit :
> Hi Boyuan,
> 
> On 2019-06-06 21:44, Boyuan Yang wrote:
>> I do remember there's still some source packages / binary packages in Debian
>> using the bzip2 format. If we are going to do that (which looks reasonable,
>> BTW), a serious archive-wide scan should be made in advance to see how great
>> the impact is and we need to deal with each occurrence.
> 
> Correction: s/some packages/massive amount of packages/
> 
> I quickly scanned my local Sid (amd64+source) mirror:
> 
> /l/M/debian ❯❯❯ find . -type f -name '*.orig.tar.bz2' | wc -l
> 1338
> /l/M/debian ❯❯❯ find . -type f -name '*.debian.tar.bz2' | wc -l
> 57

Hello,

uscan can be modified to repackage all tar.bz2 upstream archives to
tar.xz ones (as for .zip files). If we decide to remove bz2, please open
a BTS against devscripts and I'll do the work.

Cheers,
Xavier