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

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 07:11:24PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Chris Lawrence <quango@watervalley.net> writes:
> 
> > Therefore, I propose that we permit the use of bzip2 to compress
> > source package files (.orig.tar for non-native packages, .tar for
> > native packages).  A patch to dpkg-1.4.1.16 is available that
> > implements this capability as an option.  Note that diff files are
> > still compressed with gzip, even with bzip2 support for tar files
> > enabled, because few are over 5k in size (compressed).
> 
> Could that maybe be more general. I would like to have a line in the
> dsc file that tells how to uncompress the tar.xxx file, i.e. names the 
> program to pipe the file through, to get the tar itself. Normaly (or
> if not mentioned) gunzip would be used.
> 
> It would normaly look as follows:
> 
> uncmopressor: gunzip

Normally, one could just look at the extension (.gz, .bz2). I don't see a
need to add an extra field to the .dsc.

Ben