Bug#513273: marked as done (Fw: 6.7.8.3 Changing binary files in diff.gz -- Suggesting GPG)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #513273,
regarding Fw: 6.7.8.3 Changing binary files in diff.gz -- Suggesting GPG
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Simon Paillard
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Hello Developer's Reference Team
I'm just a Debian user, not a developer, so you can safely ignore me. :)
But I have a tiny suggestion for your Developer's Reference manual.
More specifically to the part 6.7.8.3:
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-changed-binfiles
It suggests uuencoded form for binary files that are shipped with Debian
source packages' diff.gz file. The footnote 7 gives perl example.
May I suggest using the ASCII armored gpg format instead? In other
words: "gpg --armor --store binaryfile". The advantage is that gpg
compresses files before encoding. Therefore the ASCII armored file may
even be smaller than the original. gpg uses base64 encoding which in
itself is more compact than the standard uuencode.
Just thoughts. Thanks.
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- To: 513273-done@bugs.debian.org, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
- Subject: Re: submitter 513273
- From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:32:39 +0200
- Message-id: <20090624153239.GA12088@xanadu.blop.info>
- In-reply-to: <1233088297-461-bts-simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>
- References: <1233088297-461-bts-simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>
Hi,
While I agree that your solution is also nice, it also has a problem: it
requires adding a build-dependency on gpg.
I don't think that it's worth introducing two alternatives solution in
developers-reference for this problem. Also, as Raphael said, the
problem will hopefully be solved by the introduction of the new package
format.
Thank you for your contribution anyway,
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