Bug#39299: AMENDED PROPOSAL] Permit use of bz2 for source packages

[Raul Miller <moth@debian.org>]

The one issue I can see is existing support for source packages.

We should not allow bz2 source packages into our archives until after
the source package tools have a good track record with transparently
supporting this format.

[Specifically, I'd like to build some of my packages to support bz2,
and test them out for myself on some of my systems -- other people might
have other tests they want to run.]

What do you think about the idea of splitting this policy change into
several phases: during the first phase we test out the tools to deal with
the packages, during the second we allow bz2 source packages to archived.

[There might eventually be a third phase where we have dpkg-source
build bz2 by default, and maybe a fourth where institute some kind
of automatic conversion from gz to bz2 or file bug reports against
packages which haven't made the switch -- I'm kind of dubious about
the bug report approach, however: we're talking about an optimization
here not a fundamental required feature.]

Thanks,

-- 
Raul