Bug#39299: PROPOSAL] permit/require use of bz2 for source packages

[Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>]

On policy, Chris Lawrence <cnlawren@olemiss.edu> wrote:
> Therefore, I propose that we permit the use of bzip2 to compress
> source package files (.orig.tar and .diff for most packages, .tar for
> native packages).  I further propose that the use of bzip2 be
> mandatory for newly uploaded source files, and that any existing
> source packages in the archive in gzip format exceeding 5 MB of
> compressed space be converted upon the freeze for potato.

The DFSG allows code that requests that the source package remains unmodified
and all modifications are distributed as patches. Our current system allows
that, unless the .tar is bzip2ed. Does the type of compression used count as a
modification? I suppose if support for gzip is left in then those packages can
be left gziped and there are no problems.

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