Bug#38902: bi]weekly policy summary
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On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 12:22:52PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > > Permit/require use of bz2 for source packages (#39299)
> > > * Old.
> > > * Proposed on 10 Jun 1999 by Chris Lawrence; seconded by Goswin
> > > Brederlow.
> > > * "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 reason this was proposed is because we're almost overflowing
> > > the second source CD already. This is a very contentious proposal. )
> >
> > Seconded.
>
> I really think the "require" and "mandatory" parts are a Bad Plan. If bz2
> support is ACTUALLY WRITTEN I would support policy that recommends using
> bz2 if upstream does. I think people with huge packages will do the right
> thing because it's the right thing in almost all cases.
The whole proposal depends on better implementation in dpkg and other tools
(you can use tar.bz2 archives, but only under tar.gz archives :( ).
Until then, my second is worthless, too.
Policy maintainer, maybe you should close/reject this, as it doesn't seem we
will be possible to properly support it with working code RSN...
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