Re: Removing bzip2 support from apt due to rustification
Hi,
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 09:54:01AM +0200, Xavier wrote:
> Le 07/06/2019 à 09:48, Mo Zhou a écrit :
> > 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.
If upstream ships a .bz2 I wouldn't want uscan to unilaterally repackage
it to something else, so -1 from to do that automatically.
Michael
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