On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 05:47:13AM +0000, Alexander Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 20 October 1999 11:07:47 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Now, who of the ones that *can* change policy is going to do
> > > anything on it? Please, can some of those give the many of
> > > us an idea of what is the problem or (possibly) what I am
> > > getting wrong?
> > (a) There's not much point changing policy when the code's not written.
> > (b) IIRC the policy proposal *requires* .bz2 compression for all sources,
> > rather than just allowing it, which isn't ideal.
> The consensus was a different one, mind you. You would be
> right here, if not that point (iirc!) was discussed.
The policy weekly summary includes ``I further propose that the use
of bzip2 be mandatory for newly uploaded source files''. This has been
both seconded and objected to (its Bug#39299). I wouldn't say any sort
of consensus has been reached personally. It needs to be rewritten and
put forward again. (The README.Debian proposal (Bug#42554) has similar
problems)
And for some reason I hadn't noticed Chris' code. How embarrasment.
Cheers,
aj
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