Re: mentors.debian.net rejects orig.tar."bz2"

[Kobayashi Noritada <nori1@dolphin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>]

From: Kobayashi Noritada
Subject: Re: mentors.debian.net rejects orig.tar."bz2"
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:50:09 +0900 (JST)

> From: Christoph Haas
> Subject: Re: mentors.debian.net rejects orig.tar."bz2"
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:15:52 +0100
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:40:44PM +0100, Patrick Winnertz wrote:
> > > >  I've uploaded package to mentors.debian.net but it failed because
> > > > mentors rejects its orig.tar.bz2 file.
> > > >
> > > >  It says "You just uploaded a diff file
> > > > (ttf-vlgothic_20071215-1.diff.gz) without an upstream tarball (should
> > > > have been 'ttf-vlgothic_20071215.orig.tar.gz')." I did it as
> > > > ttf-vlgothic_20071215.orig.tar.bz2.
> 
> > I believe I recently read something about dpkg-buildpackage supporting
> > orig.tar.bz2 now. If that's true then I'll have to fix
> > mentors.debian.net. Can somebody give us a hint?
> 
> This issue was discussed a few days ago on this list:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/12/threads.html#00285
> 
> I know the ability to compress *binary* packages with bzip2 has been
> supported in dpkg-dev, as announced on debian-devel-announce:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/12/msg00007.html
> 
> However, I don't know such an ability for *source* packages.  I have
> found a changelog entry of dpkg as follows:
> 
>  dpkg  (1.14.10) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>    (...snip...)
>    * dpkg-source now correctly identifies the extension of the
>      orig.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma} file and won't unexpectedly create "Format: 2.0"
>      .dsc files.
>    (...snip...)
> 
> I think this means creating .dsc files including .orig.tar.bz2 is not
> an intended behaviour and is a bug of dpkg.  Is this interpretation
> correct?

Oops, I also find:

 dpkg  (1.13.9) unstable; urgency=low

   (...snip...)
   Improvements to dpkg-source (Brendan O'Dea):
   (...snip...)
   * Native and upstream tarballs may be bzip2-compressed instead of gzip,
     as may the debian diff or tarball.
   (...snip...)

So, bzip2-compressed tarball has been actually supported since 2005?

-nori