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Re: upstream tarball repackaging from bz2 to gz



Eric Cooper wrote:
> The upstream tarball for a package I maintain is in .tar.bz2 format.
> I've been downloading it and recompressing it into .tar.gz format.
> This seems like a very common situation.

...FWIW, my opinion to that:
http://people.debian.org/~daniel/documents/packaging.html#package-format

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