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



Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:

>     - If there is no available digital signature and the work is packed in 
>       an archive format that stores meta-information (OS/2 EAs, Mac
>       Resource forks, etc) then the archive encoding of the work must not
>       be changed by the packager, but if possible it should be converted
>       to maximum compression.

Whoah, you're saying that we can't convert zip archives (which may
contain EAs/resource forks) to tarballs?  I think we're going to have
trouble with that one.

-- 
Chris Waters   xtifr@dsp.net | I have a truly elegant proof of the
      or    xtifr@debian.org | above, but it is too long to fit into
http://www.dsp.net/xtifr     | this .signature file.


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