Re: mentors.debian.net rejects orig.tar."bz2"
Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> writes:
> The dpkg changelog says (2005-06-11):
>
> * debian/control ([dpkg-dev]Recommends): Recommend bzip2, it's
> not an absolute dependency until bz2 packages are supported by
> katie and policy.
>
> And indeed policy does not mention bz2, and speaks of orig.tar.gz all over
> the place. I guess this means bz2 is not supported yet, even though dpkg
> handles it.
This may just be Policy lagging behind dpkg. If someone wants to
investigate this, please start by checking with ftp-master and asking if
dak supports .bz2 and if they're willing to accept such packages in the
archive. If so, we should change Policy.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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