Bug#54002: PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:05:47AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Chris Lawrence writes ("Bug#54002: [PROPOSAL] permit use of bzip2 for source packages"):
> > I propose that "woody" and subsequent releases permit the use of bzip2
> > format for source packages. Code to handle bzip2-compressed source
> > packages has been integrated into an experimental release of dpkg, and
> > could easily be ported to the current mainline dpkg. The patches
> > allow automatic detection of the format on extraction
> > (dpkg-source -x); building of source packages requires an additional
> > argument to dpkg-source, dpkg-buildpackage or debuild, as appropriate.
>
> This should not be a policy proposal yet, I think. Instead, get the
> code into the distributed version of dpkg-dev for a year or so and
> then we can think about changing it.
>
> I think it's important that people with old versions of dpkg-dev can
> still unpack new source archives for at least some time.
>
> Furthermore, to avoid changing source archive checksums we should only
> distribute .bz2 when the upstreams do so, or when the upstream ships
> something we have to repack anyway.
The version of dpkg that I have in experiemental allows the use of bz2 for
dpkg-source without breaking the format.
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