Re: Bug#535797: dpkg-dev: Does not support orig.tar.bz2 anymore
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Sorry. Did not know that old style orig.tar.bz2 was declared dead. We
> had partially working suport (unpacking) in etch and this bug was for
> generating them. It was fixed somewhere post etch and broken again
> before lenny. So technically this was the right thing to do.
You can still generate them if you really care, but you have to request it
explicitely (debian/source/format or dpkg-source --format=2.0). It won't
auto-select v2 format...
But there are no plans to use this format in Debian proper.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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